SiFi Networks on Monday announced that it had obtained funding to build an open access fiber network through the whole city of Fullerton, California. SiFi will fund, build and operate the networks in partnership with Internet Service Providers, which will market services to individual households. A mid-sized city in Southern California with a population of of 135,151 in the 2010 Census, Fullerton provides a useful test case for making the open access model work in the United States.