At 20 he took over the remains of his deceased father's lone cable-television outpost in Centralia, Wash. and turned it into a national cellular network, fueled with massive debt and loans from wireless equipment makers.

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Harris makes communications products such as satellite and other wireless networks, transcommunication equipment, air control systems, and mobile radio network systems.

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" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.

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