I worked with a company in Quebec City. Maybe I shouldn't get too specific, but they were developing computer modules that would then talk to that communication system in order to provide....
I'm trying to be as anonymous as I can on this, because of the company and the business they were doing. They were using that data to do things, to interact with other computers that would then signal for other things to happen. Again, there was innovation going on based on the network that was on the machine, but then other communication networks were developed to do innovative and complementary tasks. Not having access to that would then stifle innovation.