Here you can read a patent app from a very secretive Seattle company:
http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/bnsviewer?CY=ec&LG=en&DB=EPD&PN=WO0004660&ID=WO+++0004660A2+I+
this looks to me like a very amazing advance in the speeds that people
will be able to access the net in the near future. Basically you slap
some of these lasers onto cell towers around a city and you get a super-
fast network (the cell towers can communicate with each other, so no
land lines needed) providing anywhere from 1.5mbit up to 10gbit to
individual users. What is bizarre is that with something like this the
end users actually end up limited in their access speeds not by the
tech but by the cost of accessing the Internet at such a high speed...
Anyone want to investigate whether they need some investment money?? :-)
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