• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn’t that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?

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      4 hours ago

      There are some really cool community owned WISP and mesh networks set ups in areas doing green fields tbh. As well as open source 5g networks (which for parts of Africa is cool because they have some pretty advanced SMS based services).