I am the ISP you wish to suppress 🥺 Yes, we want alternatives and in the event of a major crises, alternatives such as LoRa are great for getting messages out, but Ham Radio is better for range and bandwidth. Think of LoRa as the planets nervous system, it can deliver low level signals reasonable distances without formal infrastructure, but it isn't going to replace the Internet. I was involved with it many years ago, I wrote about it here:

Mike Hardcastle

Gaia, AI and Robots

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Ignore the AI predictions, I knew nothing then, I know even less now 😂 Look at Iran, Internet blocked at the flick of a switch. Starlink made a small impact, but unless you're on the government whitelist, you're disconnected from the rest of the world. I'm pretty certain Iranian Radio Hams are having a greater impact than LoRa Mesh operators are right now. Radio waves, while they can be jammed locally are difficult to jam at scale, so I agree radio is the right approach, but think of LoRa as the Twitter of communications and Ham Radio as the broadband of radio. The difficulty with Ham Radio is you need training and a license to broadcast. Why? Because there is only so much global ham frequency available, so operators need to be knowledgable and responsible.