Thanks for pointing this out. Pretty cool! I didn't know about it. It is a fairly reasonable cost. Inukshuk sounds a whole lot like a Wimax deployment. Plug a wifi router into one of these and you'd be set.

If I could get one of these with integrated wifi that was the size of a cellphone and ran on batteries, I would ditch my broadband and cellphone and go with this immediately. Maybe soon.

I don't like the sound of roaming fees though.

These aren't regular modems, though, they're more like high-capacity receivers.

The whole concept looks very similar to what ClearWire does, and the devices I've seen are bigger and bulkier than modern ADSL/cable modems. They also require a fair amount of power. It can be moved from one room of your house to a different one, but that is the limit of its mobility. And this aspect is not likely to change.