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Everything you said is true. But the capitalists own the Internet service providers and cellular carriers. If you know a "federated cellular operator," let me know and I'll hook you up right away. However, there is no such thing. So we get another illusion of freedom in a beautiful package.
For the life of me I can't find it but years ago there was a push for the internet to adopt a new standard that was fully run on individuals' wifi board in their computers. It was Japanese if I remember right. I'll try to find it.
I don’t know of any community cell carriers, but co-op ISPs are a thing. Toronto Freenet was probably the first ISP I ever used (stretching the term a bit, since it was more of a BBS service at the time if I remember correctly), and it looks like it’s still going relatively strong.
http://www.torfree.net/about-freenets.html