At the end of 2008, Barcelona City Council decided to put the pilot network into operation and to increase the coverage of this WI-FI Mesh Access Network for Corporative purposes from roughly 50 access points up to 680 access points, as the first phase (2009) of a massive deployment over the whole city. This is the so-called “WiFi Outdoors” project. The services officially started its operations in January and the works for the first phase of coverage extension are planned to finish in December 2009 for approximately a 25% of Barcelona City coverage. Further extensions of WiFi network will cover 100% of Barcelona. The network deployment prioritizes the coverage of the main streets of the city (approximately, those of the Bus Service network). These main streets concentrate the most part of the municipal services demand. The access to the network is provided by WiFi Mesh access routers or access points installed in public poles or walls in the street every 150 to 200m. One out of every 5 to 10 access nodes is connected to the municipal fiber optics trunk network. This kind of node (WiFi routers) is called the “gateway” in the network terminology, and it collects all the service traffic in its WiFi Mesh coverage area. The pilot has thus far resulted in: • The WiFi network helps to have a new management model for the City. • There is a great number of new municipal services that can be deployed (today more than 40). • New municipal services indirectly help to improve the quality of the final services offered to the citizens. • The investment on physical infrastructures to support the access network creates a good basis for the deployment of other technologies in the future. • The cost reduction in municipal services can pay the network operation cost and provide some aids to ROI.