I'd say that recent developments in long-range low-power radio networks (like LoRa, but see the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPWAN https://en.wikipedia

I'd say that recent developments in long-range low-power radio networks (like LoRa, but see the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPWAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPWAN) might change this. Of course it still makes sense to many here to run their own gateway for reasons of privacy and control, but perhaps the market at large could go for city-wide third-party networks, or something. Of course not everyone lives in cities, but perhaps shared networks might work in more rural settings, too.