Here’s a list of our reasons for building a community-owned mesh network:

• Self configuring (simple!)
• Emergency community networking (for next hurricane)
• Freedom from the telecom oligopoly of Time Warner, Verizon, Comcast
• A neutral network that does not block or discriminate content
• No personal data collection
• Public wifi access points
• Decentralized, no single point of failure
• Community building with highly localized websites
• Close the digital divide
• Potentially higher symmetrical bandwidth than provided by the oligopoly
• Creating an infrastructure commons. The community owns the network.
• Eventual self-sufficient network as alternative to internet