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by solardev 979 days ago
Mesh networks are a thing, but 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz aren't great carrying signals long distances or over the horizon. They're only really practical in densely populated areas, which tend to have wifi and cell already. Useful in mass protests and stadiums, maybe, but not so much out in the country...

WiMax can help a bit, but those have powerful stationary transmitters.

Fundamentally I don't think it's so much the particularly transmission scheme used that matters here, but just the amount of power it takes to send data over distance when it's not relayed by a stationary base station.