Use cases
What people actually do with an off-grid mesh
MeshCore matters most where the usual assumptions break: no coverage, no power, or no time to wait for either to come back. These are the three patterns we see most across Central Texas.

Agriculture
Coverage that reaches past the last bar of signal
Ranches and farms sit in dead zones carriers have no reason to fill. One repeater on the barn covers the whole operation, and every neighbour who puts one up extends it further.
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Healthcare
Care coordination that survives the outage
Secure chat, paging, and phones all fail together in a regional event. A mesh channel between facilities has no upstream to lose.
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Disaster relief
A channel that comes up before the towers do
Blocked roads, shelter capacity, crew assignments, coordination on day one, while carriers are still restoring service.
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