Aspen Wireless News & Updates

ASPEN, Colo. – On a hillside overlooking downtown Aspen, three entrepreneurs; Jim Selby, Scott Stevens, and David Peterson describe The Aspen Wireless Network, an ultra-advanced Wi-Fi Mesh-networking system that now blankets this resort community with a high-quality wireless broadband cloud. Listening with obvious fascination was one of the most powerful people in American communications.

“This is breathtaking,’’ said Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as the trio wrapped up its presentation. He was continually impressed, he added, at how modern technology has upended traditional assumptions of what it takes, in money and time, to create such a system.- Dan Gillmor, Mercury News Tech Columnist

San Jose Mercury News (FULL STORY – free registration)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/9489638.htm?1c

Dan Gillmor Blog Entry
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010722.html#010722