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Powell and Wireless Advances. Pictured at left are FCC Chairman Michael Powell (second from left) with the three of the top folks from EverWave, a wireless networking company based in Aspen, Colo. Powell spoke here yesterday at Progress & Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit, and this morning he and several FCC folks took a ride with the EverWave folks up into the foothills, where they described an amazing mesh-networking system that now blankets this resort community with a high-quality wireless cloud.

These guys are impressive. They say they put the system together in about a month with a relatively paltry $40,000 investment in gear.

Powell loves this stuff, and he was plainly dazzled by what he saw. And his FCC deserves some credit for projects like this, because the agency has been pushing the deployment of and innovation in wireless broadband.

[Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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