Chris Gilmer , Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Wi-Fi provider MetroFi of Mountain View is scheduled to announce today the premiere of three free wireless Internet hot spots in San Francisco.

The hot spots are said to cover the Civic Center plaza, Portsmouth Square and the Ferry Building. These new San Francisco locations will allow laptop and handheld users to access the Internet at download speeds of up to 1 megabit per second.

This venture by MetroFi, is not a hot spot rollout connected to San Francisco’s city-wide wireless project, which MetroFi and 25 other vendors are vying to win. MetroFi and Google have offered to build a free city Wi-Fi system. The company has already made Wi-Fi available in Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.