I don't really know much about the mesh technologies. I did work a bit with a researcher you may want to speak with, a colleague of mine that you may know in my department. I'm sorry, but her name is escaping me right now.
Yes, we do a bit of work on communications. I'd say that in the last five years, I've gone from barely even being able to make phone calls with colleagues up there to having Zoom meetings. There has been a tremendous change very quickly. Is it reliable and affordable? No. The strategy that I have adopted in a lot of my work with colleagues is that we actually embed budgets within our research budgets to cover community costs and connecting to Starlink and these types of strategies, which is what's being done right now.
In terms of upcoming technologies, I'm not super-familiar with what's happening in that area.
Her name is Helen Hambly, and she's working a lot on that.