The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically …
i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it’s definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol
i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it’s definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol