I'm a big fan of the idea of a mesh network. That said you're probably not going to replace fiber optic networks (e.g.) with a mesh of wireless devices. But hav

I'm a big fan of the idea of a mesh network. That said you're probably not going to replace fiber optic networks (e.g.) with a mesh of wireless devices. But having a dynamic peer-to-peer wireless mesh to augment physical media is probably something that improves the overall network. I tend to agree that likely regulation is part of this but maybe a counter example is people opening their WiFi networks, which isn't regulated against, but people generally don't do. OTOH we could have regulation forcing all WiFi networks to be open? With some mechanism of paying people for bandwidth usage? But who would drive something like that? I think that's not different than me going through your phone on the way to the next hop? You will need to give me some battery life, and some of your bandwidth, so what do you get in return?