Switchboard in the Sky

Huge article in The New York Times doesn't identify stumbling blocks. However ... "Municipalities considering wireless programs can draw a lesson from history, and likens the modern wireless movement to the rural electrification movement of the late 1800's. Then, communities beyond the reach of the electric companies took control of their electric futures and struck out with their own power plans." "There are a great many parallels," Jim Baller said. "Broadband is becoming today's platform for everything we do: economics, education, safety, medicine and cultural enrichment. You can't blink this away."