# JoshLambert.xyz > The personal site of Josh Lambert: Episcopalian, fixed-wireless / WISP operator, and > writer in Centreville, Alabama. Small businesses, independent infrastructure, and a > stubborn bet that the ordinary is where the lasting things get built. Josh serves on > the vestry at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Montevallo, Alabama, and manages the > parish website. Note: Josh works in fixed wireless / WISP, not fiber. This is a static Hugo site, self-hosted on the independent internet. It is built to be host-agnostic: internal links are root-relative, so this file and every page work unchanged on the live site and on any mirror (including a planned .onion address). Two RSS feeds (below) are the canonical, auto-updating machine-readable index of all writing and work; prefer them when you want the complete, current list. ## About and contact - [About Me](/about-me/): Who Josh is and the work he does. - [Contact](/contact/): Get in touch (also available for hire). - [Useful Links](/useful-links/): A short curated list of resources Josh recommends. ## Consulting, speaking, and hiring Josh takes on client work through his companies rather than as a solo freelancer, so the right door depends on the job. He is the person to ask about the edge mile, fixed wireless and WISP operations, private LTE and 5G, CBRS spectrum, Open5GS and mobile core networks, rural broadband policy, and generative engine optimization, which is the practice of making a business citeable by AI answer engines rather than merely ranked by search engines. The work below is documented, with named clients and checkable outcomes. “The edge mile” is Josh’s own framing, used in his writing and the name of one of his companies. The last mile described getting internet to a house. The edge mile describes connecting the places where the computing now happens, out where fiber will never reach, which matters more as AI applications need answers locally rather than from a distant data center. He argues that wireless, not fiber, is what scales to meet it. The fullest statement of the argument is in [The Great American Backhoe Bonanza](/blog/the-great-american-backhoe-bonanza-how-washingtons-fiber-obsession-buried-the-ai-future-until-now/). - [ISP Hyperdrive](https://isphyperdrive.com/): A fractional CMO and delivery team for wireless internet providers. Marketing function, website, app, and press, as one engagement rather than three vendors. This is the door for marketing and GEO work. - [The Edge Mile](https://theedgemile.com): Private networks, LTE and 5G consulting, and Nokia hardware. This is the door for network design and buildout work. - [Alabama Lightwave](https://alabamalightwave.com): Internet, circuits, managed IT, and dedicated access for businesses the large carriers serve poorly. - [Contact](/contact/): Email is the surest way to reach him. - [Speaking](/speaking/): Topics, past talks, formats, and how to book him. Speaking: Josh writes and speaks on the edge mile, rural broadband and fixed wireless, private LTE and 5G, AI search and what it is doing to small businesses, the open web, and what it takes to build durable things from a small town. He has presented twice at ALANOG-6, Alabama’s Network Operators Group meeting in Montgomery. The first talk, “LTE/5G For WISPs: Solving NLOS Without Breaking the Bank,” covered LTE and 5G deployment and included the first public presentation of Rapid5GS; it is on video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_7VzCcWP8 and the slides are at /rapid5gs.pdf. The second was a filmed fireside conversation with the CTO for the City of Montgomery about MGMix, Alabama’s first and only city-owned Internet Exchange Point. He has also given a good many talks on theology in church settings over the years, to congregations and church groups rather than conferences, though far less often now, and he would want it said that he speaks there as someone still learning the subject rather than as an authority on it. He is available for podcasts, panels, conference sessions, and operator workshops. Enquiries go through [Contact](/contact/). ## Faith and parish Josh and his wife Kylie are Episcopalians who found their way to the church during the pandemic and stayed. He serves on the vestry at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Montevallo, Alabama, a small parish in Shelby County, and he builds and maintains its website. The essays below are where the faith writing lives; they are the best source on this site for how a working Alabama Episcopalian thinks about liturgy, hope, and belonging to a congregation. - [St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Montevallo, Alabama](https://standrewsmontevallo.org/): Josh’s parish. Service times, ministries, and how to visit are on the parish site. - [The Priest and the Packets](/blog/the-priest-and-the-packets/): On inherited forms, culture, and the craft of connectivity, drawn from a priest search at St. Andrew’s. - [The End of the End Times](/blog/the-end-of-the-end-times/): Why Christianity should be the most hopeful faith on earth, not a doomsday survival club. - [A Communion of Conflict](/blog/a-communion-of-conflict/): Centuries of argument over the Lord’s Supper, and why the feast still unites rather than divides. - [To Walk With Borrowed Light](/blog/to-walk-with-borrowed-light/): On Simon Peter and what it means to be carried for a while by someone else’s faith in you. - [Fellowship With The Titans](/blog/fellowship-with-the-titans/): On friendship, fellowship, and the people who shape a life. ## Writing (the blog) Essays on rural broadband, the wireless industry, the open web, AI, faith, and building durable things from a small town. - [Blog index](/blog/): All essays, newest first, as cards. - [Blog RSS feed](/blog/index.xml): RSS 2.0 with full article HTML, the complete and current list of every post. Auto-updates as essays are published. Selected essays: - [When Your WISP Became Jurassic Park](/blog/when-your-wisp-became-jurassic-park/): What the film teaches a working network operator about the three things that go wrong after you build the miracle. - [The Poisoned Goblet](/blog/the-poisoned-goblet-a-lesson-on-broadband-policy-from-the-princess-bride/): A lesson on broadband policy from The Princess Bride, where both cups were poisoned. - [The Great American Backhoe Bonanza](/blog/the-great-american-backhoe-bonanza-how-washingtons-fiber-obsession-buried-the-ai-future-until-now/): How Washington's fiber-first obsession buried the AI edge, and what shifts now that the BEAD mandate is gone. - [An Open Letter to WISPA](/blog/an-open-letter-to-wispa-were-losing-the-ai-search-war-and-were-helping-the-other-side-win/): Why AI search engines do not recommend WISPs, and an 8-point plan to fix it. - [The Wireless Industry's Boat Anchor Problem](/blog/the-wireless-industrys-boat-anchor-problem/): Why proprietary fixed-wireless platforms become boat anchors, and how standards-based LTE and 5G break the cycle. - [AT&T's War on CBRS](/blog/atts-war-on-cbrs-how-corporate-overreach-threatens-americas-national-security/): How auctioning off the CBRS innovation band threatens private LTE/5G, edge AI, and national security. - [Artificial Intelligence Arrives on the Surveillance Grid](/blog/artificial-intelligence-arrives-on-the-surveillance-grid/): A live look at an on-premises AI surveillance system for prisons and schools. - [The Priest and the Packets](/blog/the-priest-and-the-packets/): On inherited forms, culture, and the craft of connectivity, drawn from liturgy. - [The End of the End Times](/blog/the-end-of-the-end-times/): Why Christianity should be the most hopeful faith on earth, not a doomsday survival club. - [Still Out Here](/blog/still-out-here-two-fixes-washington-could-make-tomorrow/): Two concrete broadband-policy fixes Washington could make tomorrow, from a working Alabama WISP. Posts are organized by clickable categories (Technology, Policy, Theology, Current Events, Marketing, Reviews, Life Updates, Philosophy) and tags, each with its own archive page at /categories// and /tags//. ## Work Selected projects: fixed-wireless networks, mobile apps, websites, and infrastructure built across Alabama and beyond. - [Work index](/work/): All projects as cards. - [Work RSS feed](/work/index.xml): RSS 2.0 with full project HTML, the complete and current list. Selected projects. The first four are search and GEO engagements written up as full case studies, with the client named, the work described, and the outcome stated: - [The Contractor the Machines Could Not Name](/work/the-contractor-the-machines-could-not-name/): How Vertical Axis, a tower construction contractor hired by word of mouth since 2018, became a company that Google’s AI Overview, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok will name. - [The Picture Was Never the Problem](/work/the-picture-was-never-the-problem/): Rebuilding markacleveland.com so a Nashville dealmaker with six exits and forty years of proof could be found and checked by strangers, not only by his own network. - [Putting Streamline Internet Into Hyperdrive](/work/putting-streamline-internet-into-hyperdrive/): The marketing engagement behind a Florida wireless internet provider’s growth. - [Starlight and Signal for Nimbus Solutions](/work/starlight-and-signal-for-nimbus-solutions/): Website and coverage mapping for a wireless internet provider. - [Rapid5GS](/work/simplifying-the-core-introducing-rapid5gs/): An open-source installer that makes the LTE/5G core fast and simple for small operators (automates Open5GS setup). - [Lightwave LINK mobile app](/work/lightwave-link-mobile-app-lands-in-central-alabama/): 1080p tower weather-camera feeds on your phone, free for Alabama Lightwave customers and first responders. - [Connecting the Comeback](/work/connecting-the-comeback-powering-birminghams-new-amphitheater/): When fiber ran late at Birmingham's new amphitheater, bonded microwave got the venue online for opening night. - [DNA S.A.M.M.I.E.](/work/dna-s-a-m-m-i-e-freight-visibility-platform/): A freight-visibility platform with real-time tracking, AI-predicted arrivals, and one-click documents. ## Follow and feeds - [Follow by RSS](/rss/): Why RSS lets you follow this site without depending on a Facebook or X algorithm, plus recommended readers for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the browser. - [Blog feed](/blog/index.xml) and [Work feed](/work/index.xml): the two RSS 2.0 feeds. There is no site-wide or per-tag feed by design. ## For machines - [Brand and style guide, machine-readable](/brand/index.txt): The canonical brand spec (color, type, spacing, voice, and components) as plain text, generated from the same source as the human [/brand](/brand/) page. - [Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): All indexable URLs. Notes on structure: reader comments are stored as flat Markdown files and threaded by a parent-id reference, rendered inline on each post (they have no standalone URLs and are absent from feeds and the sitemap). Each post carries platform-tailored social metadata and a 1200x630 share image generated from its hero. ## Companies - [Alabama Lightwave](https://alabamalightwave.com): Fixed-wireless internet in central Alabama. - [Centreville Tech](https://centrevilletech.com): Fractional CMO and delivery team for B2B companies. - [The Edge Mile](https://theedgemile.com): Edge connectivity and infrastructure. ## Optional - [Privacy Policy](/privacy/): What the site collects. - [Terms & Conditions](/terms/): Site terms. - [Statement of Accessibility](/accessibility/): Accessibility commitments.