From a CEO speaking to ISP Planet on his company's efforts to get troops in Iraq wired (or unwired, as the case may be): "I lived in the Hussein presidential palace as an adviser to Bremmer," says Helfrich. "There's bandwidth at the last mile but no connectivity. We had 1 Gbps within the palace, but the CNN.com page would take 30 seconds to paint because it went over three satellite hops at 7200 ms latency each."