I looked into this type of thing really intensely last month because I was going on a cruise ship where communication was at an evil monopoly level of cost and a robbery level of bandwidth. I thought we could use them at times when the family was split up. We didn’t and instead, the family (15 in all) spent 2/3 of our time trying to figure out what to do and where everybody else was going to be.
I doubt it because even within the company they sell a military-type grade, a professional type, and a mere mortal type. Seems you would want the public mesh on its own frequency. Also, I only singled this one out on the other thread because it’s already in the market where the other products are promising dreams.
After reading a bunch of their stuff, it seems the majority of their stationary models are ordinary dongles plugged into solar USB chargers left in high places. They have a map to explore, and some amateurs have 5 to 7-mile radius stationary towers.
https://imeshyou.gotennamesh.com/ (interactive map of public mesh users, not all users)
From reading their site, the 7-mile radius ones are achieved by a simple hack of their product that “breaks the warranty” but they do not discourage people from doing that. They even seem happy that customers are hacking their products.
I didn’t even think to look for interoperability when I was first looking. I’m not even aware of a competitor so there was nothing for me to think of compatibility with other similar items.
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I’m looking around more now and it looks like Semtech company has the patents on the most important parts: https://www.semtech.com/products/wireless-rf/lora-transceivers
They show Global frequency versions and Continent specific frequency versions. Wouldn’t that mean no matter who fabricated the dongles, the most important part that is patented, LoRa® Transceivers, would have to be interoperable?