A commercial telco and a mesh network are not different ways of solving the same problem. They are built on opposite assumptions about how infrastructure works. Understanding why that matters is the key to understanding why regional Australia keeps getting left behind, and what to do about it.
"Phone box, rural Ceredigion" by Dai Lygad (CC BY 2.0)
The Economics of Absence
In regional and rural areas, the connectivity gap is not a failure of effort or ambition. It is the predictable output of a particular economic model.
