They say markets abhor vacuums. I took a trip up to NYC yesterday and saw first hand how lots of money can be made by filling voids. This broadband problem looks like another such voids. Especially now when so many skilled people are losing jobs -- including telco workers -- the skills are certainly around to fix this "last mile" problem.
As you say, WiFi can do the job. WiMax can probably do it better. Instead of having a few individuals barter with neighbors one by one, the market void would be better filled by an entrepreneur advertising for cooperative homeowners. Each of these access points could probably serve many nearby houses. A win-win situation for everyone. >Get friendly with a neighbor not too far away who has cable ...make a deal >with them to share the internet connection and cost ...put it in writing as >a little contract in case you shoot their dog or something ...what you are >doing is getting a wifi router and hooking into their cable ...if their >speed is slow, offer to pay for the higher speed so everything works without >problems ...smart, eh? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
