For a lot of places in the U.S. and certainly parts of India, last mile broadband should stay remain the purview of local providers (co-ops, municipalities, etc

For a lot of places in the U.S. and certainly parts of India, last mile broadband should stay remain the purview of local providers (co-ops, municipalities, etc.), and might be wireless. For agricultural applications, for example, it makes no sense to run fiber to the home just to run it back out with a patchwork of low-quality repeaters. Other places (there's an example from Spain) it makes sense for a neighborhood to deploy a wireless mesh network. -- I work with broadband data in the U.S. for economic development purposes.