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Is there really no alternative to using an ISP for a connection?

Is it possible to build a decentralised and encrypted network on our mobile phones? I guess we still have to run traffic through mobile service providers...

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We're a ways away from it being as powerful as our current internet solution, but it's called a meshnet. On a super basic level everyone connects to eachother via wifi. No ISPs or mobile providers are part of it.

<speculation> Use an educational or national institution for an Internet connection, bypassing commercial networks.

Those educational networks still connect to the commercial networks, via commercial ISPs.

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