please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources unplugged cities news newspapers books scholar jstor free images february 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . february 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message unplugged cities l.l.c. type private industry internet & communications founded 2005 headquarters minneapolis minnesota usa area served united states products wireless internet website www.unpluggedcities.com unplugged cities llc is an isp that specializes in metro wifi internet connections generally in partnership with a city or township . unplugged cities also provides webhosting wlan and point to point wireless connections in the twin cities minnesota area . 1 history edit unplugged cities was founded in minneapolis minnesota on january 2005 . this company was founded after the city of st. louis park minnesota agreed to partner with unplugged cities in the parkwifi project that was supposed to provide wireless internet service throughout the city . 2 as part of the foundation of the company unplugged cities purchased the minnesota portion of pixius communications to provide a base of support staff until parkwifi was fully operational . the minnesota assets purchased from pixius were formed into a company named metroprovider which offers dial up dsl webhosting and t1 services throughout the twin cities area . wireless strategy edit unplugged cities has a strategy of helping cities set up municipal wifi networks . unplugged cities will generally help the city plan build and then ultimately manage the wireless network . although unplugged cities is responsible for the network after its full launch all of the actual equipment and infrastructure . this means that the city can ultimately switch wireless network managers if they feel that they need to and prevents unplugged cities from having to remove wireless equipment for whatever reason . references edit www.unpluggedcities.com www.parkwifi.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unplugged cities & oldid 743567918 categories 2005 establishments in minnesotacompanies established in 2005companies based in minneapolishidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from february 2009all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from february 2009all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 06 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view