What happens when a former dot-commer, members of the Cult of the Dead Cow, and 1337 Tibeten exiles team up to provide Internet and phone service to community organizations in Dharamsala, India?

For one, the Dalai Lama takes notice. And then there are the unique technical challenges: 

Monkeys are everywhere", [says the project's founder]. "Often, you'll see a huge, gorilla-sized monkey hang on to an antenna, swing from it, eat it, try to break it. We lost a lot of cables that way, but now we use very strong equipment so that even monkeys can't break it."