[DisasterRadio] Comms as a $ervice?

[Matthias Brugger]

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 at 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 at 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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