A debilitating number of people remain steadfastly impervious to the following fact:

Stuff costs money.

I had a great contractor who helped me renovate my first house - a 1930 fishing shack on Maryland’s western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He described the art of building like this:

“Air is free. If you want to put it inside? That costs money.”

Because money is required to pay for the cement, wood, drywall, paint, and other materials required to enclose the air. And for the expertise and labor of the people who do the enclosing.

Converting outdoor air into indoor air - costs money.

So, too, is it with the air we use to connect to the Internet wirelessly. Floating all around us is what is called the wireless spectrum:

“All wireless communications signals travel over the air via radio frequency, aka spectrum. The TV broadcast you watch, the radio program you listen to, the GPS device that helps get you where you're going, and the wireless phone service you use to make phone calls and check Facebook from your smartphone -- all use invisible airwaves to........

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