Pervasive internet access is on the way:

"A wireless technology that Sprint Nextel plans to launch within a year makes high-speed and secure Internet access possible from almost anywhere...Competitors such as Clearwire, based in Kirkland, Wash., and Nextnet, based in Palto Alto, Calif., are expected to follow Sprint with their own WiMax-equipped products...Sprint's biggest telecom rivals, AT&T and Verizon, are trailing behind Xohm with an alternative but similar technology. Called Long Term Evolution (LTE), it will not be available until 2010."