I’ve been waiting for this for over 7 years. Anyone living/working in Palo Alto especially on Sand Hill Road knows exactly what I’m talking about. (Ironic that the center of the information revolution - Palo Alto, and more specifically Sand Hill, has had spotty coverage for years.)

Here is the WSJ article.

All this for around $600 bucks (the cost of a high end handset)

Now I wonder if I can get Cingular or Sprint to pay me for third party traffic I route to their network (that would only be fair for their crappy service). . . kinda like distributed power generation. . . :)

BTW, I wonder which VC would be the first to get one (or already has one!)