I always get excited by new Bluetooth mesh network technology

  I always get excited by new Bluetooth mesh network technology because it is extremely useful for pro-democracy movements. Wherever the Internet could be censored, monitored, surveilled, or shut down due to security reactions to social movements, protests, rallies, and marches, a Bluetooth mesh network like FireChat, which was used throughout the 2010s in Hong Kong during the protests against Chinese authoritarianism that came to be known as the Umbrella Movement, can keep communications flowing to a large group of organizers in the field, avoiding confusion, the fog of war, and other roadblocks.  Mesh networks are equally useful for underserved areas in rural or urban communities.  There have been some successful examples. One in particular comes to mind of an urban community that installed local Internet through a Wi-Fi network that was based on mesh networks.  Now, of course, the ideal mesh network would simply involve every phone that had downloaded an app onto it as transmitters in the network, and this would be immensely useful and especially if the phones could do this while they were not in use.  So we have the possibility of mesh networks installed in remote areas, and also created by the natural network effect of our phones.  These technologies should be more in use.  More to the point, Signal has accomplished a new level of communications for organizing; however, there are certain gaps such as sharing your phone number or the fact that it uses cell service to transmit although-encrypted messages.  I think this kind of work should be supported in some way, shape or form.