SJ Mercury: Broadband competition might still be possible. Dan Gillmor. Tom Freeburg and his colleagues at Canopy Wireless Broadband Products, a unit of electronics giant Motorola, are telling one of the most intriguing stories of all. They've come up with a system that could bypass, at least for the near term, the wire-line duopoly in urban and suburban areas. [Tomalak's Realm]