Register: How to re-use communication infrastructre

Isn't it such a shame there are all these great mobile phone networks being used to generate profit for corporations? Ask the engineers who run them or the old heads who designed them, and they'll tell you they wanted to make open communication systems rather than cash-cows for the rish to get richer.

So how can we take it back and make it work for us? Difficult, but here's some practical instructions based on how revolutionaries in North Africa have re-taken phone systems... but equally applicable everywhere.