EarthLink said Tuesday that it is pulling the plug on its citywide Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia.

EarthLink issued a press release on Tuesday stating that it was unable to find a buyer for the $17 million network that has been 80 percent completed. It also claimed that after months of negotiations with the city and a nonprofit group interested in running the network, it was unable to close the deal.

Chris Putala, a spokesman for EarthLink wouldn't identify the nonprofit group. But a Philadelphia Inquirer article named the nonprofit as Cleveland-based OneCommunity, an organization that provides a fiber network to public and nonprofit institutions in Ohio.

EarthLink claims it had offered to donate the network free of charge to OneCommunity as well as pay cash and donate new Wi-Fi equipment, but the "transfer unraveled due to unresolved issues among the city, Wireless Philadelphia and the nonprofit."

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