I am confused . . .
The article portrays one of the intents as a means to avoid the potential impacts of the repeal of the net neutrality rule. But, then they rely on a fiber optic cable, which is presumably owned by a corporation that is no longer bound by net neutrality?
Or are the regulation of fiber optic cable or its ownership different?
Generally, if you're getting a fiber connection, it's a business/commercial connection, which is a bit more "Here's the bandwidth, you make your own decisions." It's not that it's fiber, it's that if you're ordering a gigabit of unmetered bandwidth, you tend to get more or less a port hooked into a backbone (well, a few stages out, but... the concept applies).
The main problem here is that mesh networks like that simply don't work reliably on a large scale...
