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In the 90s, Arraycomm had developed a technology that relied on multipath and was capable of putting a spherical signal in less than a half-meter of space. This technology, called "Intellicell", was used first to nearly quadruple the capacity of Japan's PHS system (tiny phones meant to be low-mobility additions to wired phones, serviced my microcell stations located on metropolitan buildings). This was later expanded to a metropolitan data service using more typical cell stations promising over a megabit/sec to each user (in 1999). Single test stations around 2 linear miles from the 2-story tower in an urban environment were able to pull over that rate. US carriers were not interested in rolling out this data service so it was sold to a company in Australia.

real solution.

http://www.arraycomm.com/gpm/australia.htm

http://www.arraycomm.com/news/pr_detail.htm?id=82

http://www.iburst.com.au/site/news/newsview.php?id =27

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Barraycomm+ %2B%22crown+castle%22

Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of Arraycomm who worked on iBurst hardware. I own stock in Arraycomm.

http://www.arraycomm.com/gpm/australia.htm

http://www.arraycomm.com/news/pr_detail.htm?id=82

http://www.iburst.com.au/site/news/newsview.php?id =27

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Barraycomm+ %2B%22crown+castle%22

Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of Arraycomm who worked on iBurst hardware. I own stock in Arraycomm.

The real price in web content isn't the delivery, it's in obtaining the content. It takes a decent staff to put together a magazine, and those same people need the same pay of they're going to do it as an e-zine too! ...The problem is not in the delivery, it's in the cost of content creation. Decentralizing to a P2P structure that carries no ads will take away the incentive to write in the first place.

Many of the best sites that still survive are written by hobbiests for hobbiests. Is there a better example to this than Slashdot? These are people who have so much genuine enthusiasm for a particular subject that they practically fall over themselves writing these sites. Ironically many of the worst sites on the web are those who employ salaried writers. Principally because there's so much product placement and mis-information.

Imagine the "can't-get-there-from-here" situations. You'll get 10 mbps connections to your neighbors, not 10 mbps connections to the content you want to see. There's a reason why 99% of the server load falls to 1% of the machines, they're the ones where the good new content is being published

You're right of course, that it's a very difficult problem. But I disagree when you say it's impossible. 802.11A has the potential to deliever 100Mpbs, and some of the new spatial division signal technologies could push that number through the roof to the Gbps range. All of this stuff has passed the proof of concept phase, it really exists. So if you have 100 clients per square mile, with ~50Gigs free harddrive space and > 100Mpbs transfer rate. That's a very potent recipe for success.

If just one guy in your city refreshed the "newest" copy of Slashdot, that means you only have to hop over to his box to get a copy...rather than making 45 hops to get to the source. There could be designated super-nodes and repeaters for this kind of thing...not hard to do.

To really be deployable in an un-metered fashion with a reasonable business model, you need something much more spectrally efficient, like ArrayComm's i-BURST for high-speed data service. A recent demo in South Korea shows it working at 1 Mbit/s. Two of South Korea's big telcos, Hanaro and KT, are planning to roll it out next year some time. Remember that Korea is where CDMA got its start.

ArrayComm licensed some spectrum in Australia, where they plan to roll out a wireless broadband service in the major cities in just 5 MHz of TDD spectrum. It looks like recent FCC rule changes have made some national TDD spectrum licenses available in the U.S. as well

It uses IntelliCell spatial processing and spatial channels to get multiple users on the same spectrum, at the same time. I've been lucky enough to see the i-BURST system in action, and it looks pretty cool, is real, and actually works. There are other smart antenna companies as well that are working on broadband data products, but I don't think any of them are as far along as ArrayComm.

To really be deployable in an un-metered fashion with a reasonable business model, you need something much more spectrally efficient, like ArrayComm's i-BURST for high-speed data service. A recent demo in South Korea shows it working at 1 Mbit/s. Two of South Korea's big telcos, Hanaro and KT, are planning to roll it out next year some time. Remember that Korea is where CDMA got its start.

ArrayComm licensed some spectrum in Australia, where they plan to roll out a wireless broadband service in the major cities in just 5 MHz of TDD spectrum. It looks like recent FCC rule changes have made some national TDD spectrum licenses available in the U.S. as well

It uses IntelliCell spatial processing and spatial channels to get multiple users on the same spectrum, at the same time. I've been lucky enough to see the i-BURST system in action, and it looks pretty cool, is real, and actually works. There are other smart antenna companies as well that are working on broadband data products, but I don't think any of them are as far along as ArrayComm.

To really be deployable in an un-metered fashion with a reasonable business model, you need something much more spectrally efficient, like ArrayComm's i-BURST for high-speed data service. A recent demo in South Korea shows it working at 1 Mbit/s. Two of South Korea's big telcos, Hanaro and KT, are planning to roll it out next year some time. Remember that Korea is where CDMA got its start.

ArrayComm licensed some spectrum in Australia, where they plan to roll out a wireless broadband service in the major cities in just 5 MHz of TDD spectrum. It looks like recent FCC rule changes have made some national TDD spectrum licenses available in the U.S. as well

It uses IntelliCell spatial processing and spatial channels to get multiple users on the same spectrum, at the same time. I've been lucky enough to see the i-BURST system in action, and it looks pretty cool, is real, and actually works. There are other smart antenna companies as well that are working on broadband data products, but I don't think any of them are as far along as ArrayComm.

Something like ArrayComm's i-BURST is more likely, since it will have the bandwidth and much greater range.