content: The distance between San Francisco and New York is about 4,600 kilometers. Unlicensed long range antennas reach ~250km. So that makes ~20 backhaul antennas to reach from coast to coast i  7ff9  n the US. Per antenna cost is probably in the $10k - $20k range. So imagine for the price of a car, a person in Colorado would be passing along metered traffic for hundreds of thousands of paying customers moving data from CA to NY and all the states in between.