I agree that disaster radio does not have the bandwidth to operate as a city wide network. Here in Barcelona/Catalonia/Spain we have guifi.net which creats a network out of comodity HW. They have a different economic model as you proposed though.

Regards,
Matthias

El dc., 26 set. 2018, 23:36, Xavier Fiechter <xavierfiechter@gmail.com> va escriure:
To be honest: I like and dislike the idea at the same time. 
The throughput of such a system is limited. 
I thought about payments per usage as well – but with the Bitcoin Lightning Network and in a different context.  

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:18 PM <sam@bristolwireless.net> wrote:

Hi all

I've been thinking a bit about Disaster radio in contexts where there 
isn't much in the way of existing infrastructure.

In particular, I've been looking at the pay-as-you-go solar model, and 
how that's been effective in an African context at getting hundreds of 
thousands of people connected to solar energy: 
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/01/29/when-mobile-meets-modular-pay-as-you-go-solar-energy-in-rural-africa/

I'm wondering if this approach could be applied to comms? If you/ we 
were to fund an initial deployment of say a hundred nodes into a 
medium-sized African city.

One or two Disaster radio nodes in that city network are connected to 
the Mobile phone network. If $X per day has been received in mobile 
micro-payments, then it removes the network-wide obnoxious banner-ad 
soliciting mobile payment? Or maybe it removes the annoying two 
minutes forced a timeout on the wifi networks?

It seems a bit counter-intuitive to look at ways to annoy users, and 
just to be clear I'm not looking to 'monetize' this in a way that 
extracts value.

But if city-wide networks could self-fund further rollout, then you 
could be looking at something that could scale in really interesting, 
potentially transformative ways.

After the capital costs of the network had been paid, and enough 
income raised to roll out to the next city, the ads/ timeout/ 
annoyance could be permanently removed, and the residents would 
collectively own their own infrastructure.

Thanks

Sam



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