Yes it definately will. We already have a spy infrastructure in place to rival the NSA, with far less oversight and public awareness - I doubt things will be improved by centralizing all of the control to a single company.
This new system allows for "service providers" with no infrastructure of their own at all, basically just handling billing and customer support - things like network wiretaps happen at a level above this sort of ISP and they would have zero control or knowledge.
This is like choosing to start the Telstra monopoly all over again imo :(
Are we too sparsely populated for mesh wi fi?
I've read Havana has a great setup.
Most cities could do it but inland would struggle.. I used to run some nodes on brismesh back in the day, not sure what happened to that project..
I remember reading about Brismesh back in my uni days. Thought it was an interesting concept.