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[โ€“] rallatsc@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, a Mexican cartel did something very similar for their comms network about 13 years ago (source)

Soldiers seized 167 antennas, more than 150 repeaters and thousands of cellphones and radios that operated on the system. Some of the remote antennas and relay stations were powered with solar panels.

[โ€“] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

makes sense. but cartels have way more resources than your average solarpunkian group. the point is the same, to not depend on corporations with ties to government agencies. what worries me is that cartels using this could be a justification to ban the tech, or make illegal to belong to on such off-grid coms network.