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Extend your reach hundreds of feet or hundreds of miles.
It's a wireless world, some say, conveniently overlooking the giant balls of cables behind every personal computer and every server, router and printer. But many want to expand the wireless world, so let's look at two companies doing just that.
Living in Texas, with miles of open land and homes and businesses scattered throughout low density suburbs, I've always been fascinated by Wireless ISPs. WISPs had a bit of a day before broadband services from cable and phone companies blanketed 90% of U.S. home locations. The cost of wireless towers and equipment, along with the competition from expanding wired broadband reach, have nearly strangled the WISP world.
If you disparage WISPs where H. Dean Cubley, CEO of ERF Wireless, can hear you, he'll tell you about ERF's expanding service offerings in financial services and oil and gas. He'll tell you how small banks in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana now make money selling the bank's excess wireless bandwidth to customers.
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