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Wireless group rooted in Concordia , by Jason Gondziola. In Concordia's Thursday Report of October 13 2005.

To wireless laptop users in Montreal, the name Île Sans Fil should by now be a household name – or at least an utterance heard in Montreal’s most tech-savvy circles.

The non-profit volunteer wireless group has made the leap from a small operation of obscure open source coders to a full-blown Montreal institution in only two years. With over 60 hotspots in the Montreal area, ISF will be signing up their 10,000th user later this month......