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Post-Katrina landscape turned into wireless lab - Wireless World - MSNBC.com
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technologies.
When Dearman posted a call for help on an e-mail distribution list, the response exceeded his wildest expectations.
"There were trucks coming from all over the United States. This restored my faith in humanity," he said. "They showed up. They came up to my house, to my farm. Their trucks were loaded down with food and wireless gear."
Eventually, BellSouth donated additional bandwidth, and MCI donated a 45-megabit per second DS3 line that Dearman used to light up southern Mississippi, including Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Pearlington and Diamondhead. Trango Broadband also donated radio equipment to expand the network.
"Intel has called me half a dozen times in the last two weeks asking me what I needed. Cisco has donated three routers," he said. "Everybody has stepped up to the plate."
But such efforts were often stymied by run-ins with bureaucrats on the ground.
Sascha Meinrath, an Illinois-based community wireless project leader who worked with Dearman, said he participated in the FCC's Sept. 2 meeting but his group never got calls back from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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