Here's more stuff the Heir has to say about the concept of GPNX.  I the Mentor put up a post here when the Heir initially started talking about it, so that should be below this post if you filter posts based on the Prepper Maker label/tag.  But the Heir has a list of attributes that at least at this time he sees as descriptive of GPNX: non-commercial, community-based, low power, global reach.  He geeks out on some details, like each GPNX converter hub acting at least as a passive repeater, with the encouraged purchase of an active repeater along with either rabbit ears or a dish or the ordinary Joe connecting the repeater to his drainpipe system.  So if this is how it can work, the more repeater'ing the Heir sees going on, the stronger signal you yourself would have, and the stronger signal your GPNX peers would have.  He sees the initial signals as starting out at a handful of cellular type towers that directly connect to the Internet via a T1 type connection.  Those signals would repeat as per that community base along with volunteer type efforts by your library or your emergency services or basic utility companies, or your local/divisional infrastructure like traffic lights at major intersections.  In terms of protocols, the Heir is looking at those that the major cell companies have discontinued for commercial use, but which the Heir sees as still useful for non-commercial use, like the stuff that's equated with 2G.  2G may sound like something that would be as slow as a dog, but the Heir asks us not to forget that there are three cellular buckets: talk, text, and data.  The Heir sees the data bit as the relevant one, and wants to repurpose the first two as data as well, specifically Internet data.  Maybe this will make things go somewhat faster, who knows, if you just might get broader bandwidth.  But the Heir wants to see if something equivalent or similar to GPNX already exists, and what the technical caveats are, and potential legal or economic or political issues, including those possibly mounted by the more commercial cellular companies if they think the Heir's cutting in on their business just by floating GPNX as an idea.  But he also sees a series of puzzle pieces all waiting to be put together by the right dedicated people.

Heir: "If I didn't mention it before, this kind of thing would benefit those with economic hardships, the survivalists, people in emergency situations, and those in remote locations."