Ouch.

Wifi Network News is reporting that Earthlink is withdrawing from its bid to build out San Francisco’s municipal wireless initiative.

More from the San Francisco Chronicle:

Ballard said Wednesday that although the joint deal with Google and Earthlink is now history, the city would regroup and issue a second round of proposals from interested vendors. Officials hope Google, which “has been a valuable partner throughout all this,” will want to participate, he said.

Tomorrow July 10th and on Wednesday July 11th the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve the City’s proposed agreement with Earthlink and Google to provide FREE wireless internet access to the City of San Francisco.

As several technologies are competing and complementing each other as the dominant technology to bridge the last mile, all are listing digital inclusion as a major goal. At a recent Women in Telecommunications panel, next-generation wireless tech leaders weighed in.

A well written article on one of our community wireless grantees, Booker T. Washington Community Center was published on Wired.com yesterday.