You Americans also have neighbours who happen to be also americans. Maybe you could have just an effective grid which allowed internal sharing instead of your managers' much more effective greed.

I have seen these products installed since years ago here in Portugal, mainly in basement datacenters, and companies (both small companies and big companies) that where located in low coverage areas. Usually they would be connected directly to a phone line or a fibre cable, but they were there and this is nothing new in technology itself.