Let's put a face on what we mean by competition: Netequality.org is the nonprofit arm of Meraki.net. They offer wireless routers that are but little boxes with a plug. When you plug the little box into a wall socket, your home is lit up as a wireless cloud, automagically. If your neighbor has one, and her neighbor, and his neighbor, the four houses can now share one DSL account. Whichever neighbor has the DSL account, simply connects the little box to their DSL modem. A community, then, can expect to connect to each home, and one-fourth of those homes would be hooked to a DSL account. This is called a community wireless mesh network. A community wireless mesh network is just a big peer-to-peer network. When one neighbor wants to share files with others, the speed is as fast almost as having both computers in the same home. Across the community, files can be transferred as if the two homes furthest apart were next to each other. Such speeds are found in universities, and in universities, the students carry on videoconferencing, lectures, concerts, town hall meetings, live events, and best of all, everyone talks to everyone else, sees everyone else, has fun. Imagine what happens if a community can suddenly enjoy virtual house calls with their doctors, emergency services can use the wireless infrastructure, all services that utilize work orders can hook in, and streamline the company's/agency's business. Of course, this also leads straight to being able to use one's cell phone for making purchases in stores, folks can see the clerk at the grocery store as she packages the weekly grocery list for pickup. Did I mention each house simply has to purchase a little box at the going price of $50? One time buy. After that, if there's a problem, simply remove the little box and replace it with another, and it lights up, with no technical expertise needed. Now, it's hard to understand why our president wouldn't want everyone to buy one of the little boxes, create a national wireless mesh network, and be done with it. Oh, wait a minute . . . that would wipe out the telco, cable, satellite, cellular industries' competition to see who's going to control our trillion dollar wireless infrastructure. Forget I mentioned it.