[MarkSummer]

Out of curiosity (by someone who doesn't know exactly how it works), is there no way for society to go completely off-grid with respect to ISPs, like power customers do with solar panels? Couldn't we then people build an inexpensive wireless black box server/partial cache nodes that everybody owns (stronger ones or bridges for rural users), and that communicate as a smart distributive network - physically detached from the existing GIG and ISPs?

[thatcat]

Wireless doesn't scale. Municipal delivered internet is the feasible option, which Comcast has sought to prevent via regulations.

The state should file antitrust charges and use the fines to erect new infrastructure that any ISP can lease, restoring competition.

[MarkSummer]

Here's a 'mostly wireless' open/neutral network that seems to be scaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net