Editing Ends and Means (section)

===Autonomous Systems===
Just as the adoption of FreedomNodes will drive the adoption of FreedomTowers, the adoption of FreedomTowers will ultimately give rise to regional FreedomLinks, and just as the construction of a neighborhood tower will drive the adoption of nodes, the adoption of a link will drive the adoption of towers. These links will sit in Internet Exchanges and Colocation centers, participating in the regional radio mesh, and in the global network of networks as a peer, rather than a client.


The population served by a single link will be quite large - perhaps as many as a million individual nodes. These regional networks will still have to buy upstream connectivity from an Internet Service Provider, but they will finally be able to do so in the same way that a Tier 3 network purchases transit from a larger network.


In operational terms, these regional networks will constitute Autonomous Systems. They will be able to peer with other networks, driving down the cost of connectivity even farther. It is at this stage that the constituents of the regional mesh truly become their own Internet Service Provider.