Free wireless broadband for all
Let’s get free Mobile WiMAX over the 700MHZ spectrum in every country of the world. That is the UHF radio spectrum that was previously used in every country for analog terrestrial television. Now that we have transitioned to digital terrestrial television, this 700MHZ spectrum is now free and should be used for long range, wall penetrating wireless broadband. Google suggests that it should be Open wireless broadband for all.
I have been trying to figure out if Mobile WiMAX can be deployed using the flower box model. This is what Nicholas Negroponte said at WCIT in May of 2006:
Viral telecommunications is truly important. The whole notion of a
carrier-centric telecommunications system is over. We’re going to move
to what I call a flower box model of telecommunications which is much
more peer-to-peer and in fact everything will eventually be
peer-to-peer.
Where each user shares his home broadband Internet connection using a 700MHZ WiMAX router, just as FON is currently doing with WiFi. I wrote about this initially in the FON forum: http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?p=18398&highlight=#18398