A debilitating number of people remain steadfastly impervious to the following fact:

Stuff costs money.

I had a great contractor who helped me renovate my first house – a 1930 fishing shack on Maryland’s western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.  He described the art of building thusly:

“Air is free.  If you want to put it inside?  That costs money.”

Because money is required to pay for the cement, wood, dry wall, paint and other materials required to enclose the air.  And for the expertise and labor of the people who do the enclosing.

Converting outdoor air into indoor air – costs money.

So too is it with the air we use to wirelessly connect to the Internet.  Floating all around us is what is called wireless spectrum: (more…)