Communications is the fastest growing major market in the world today—and one of the largest. Communications has the potential to transform the world and humanity itself in ways we have only begun to understand. The internet as a major force is only about 15 years old, but it is changing the world at an accelerating pace, and in unexpected ways.

We at Palmer Labs see bandwidth as the biggest stumbling block to future transformational communications. We believe that 10 Gigabits per second to every person, everywhere, all the time, wirelessly, and affordably, is what is needed to remove that block. We have the technology concepts to make it possible. We intend to make it happen. It will come in pieces, some of them difficult and unexpected, but possible, and therefore, essential.

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