I thought this whole exercise was to create a cloud in the Twin Cities, where wireless users would have the ability to communicate between hotspots in disparate geographic areas. The Moos Tower Project appears to be following a centralized base station concept: low power mobiles uplinking to a centralized, higher elevation receiver, which answers by downlinking to the same mobile by a centralized, higher elevation transmitter. There obviously are more legal and engineering issues than first thought. I propose an alternative: using whatever bandwidth is available to individual members, whether it be xDSL, ISDN, or dial-up modems, we can link hotspots together. Depending on the topology of the network, sites may be major nodes with routing capabilities, minor nodes with hubs or switches, or leaf nodes at end points of the physical cloud. Secure, encrypted transmission protocols would be an eventual necessity. All traffic <must> adhere to contractual agreements with upstream providers. Between private parties, i.e. node to node wireline links, there would be no such limitations. I can elaborate on this idea at the next formal meeting if you want me to.