Listening to #RNZ on recent damage to the #telco network. @paulbrislen is featured... If we're wanting to improve communications resilience, surely it makes sense to exploit the fact that cellphones can talk to one another directly rather than depending on telco cell towers & backhaul... The telcos would probably fight it, as it limits their ability to 'clip the ticket', but gov't should mandate it as a civil defence/resilience measure. See https://serval-project.org (a #FOSS project) for details.