Today’s Theo reports that neither EarthLink nor VeriLAN will file an appeal of the City’s decision to choose MetroFi for the “Unwire Portland” project, although both have sent letters.
“EarthLink warned the city that MetroFi’s free, advertising-supported model may prove unworkable,” says the article, “while VeriLAN complained that the city chose an out-of-state company instead of a homegrown one.”
Sounds familiar.
VeriLAN, it seems, says they won’t appeal because “you can’t stop someone from making a bad decision.” But the choice sentence in the article comes from the other losing competitor for the contract.
“EarthLink, which is a minority investor in MetroFi, declined to say why it didn’t appeal.”
