Every such provider likes to play games with who they give good rates to or who they exclude altogether from their network. People said the same about cellular access and it's still far too expensive for most people in most rural areas.
At the least you need storage for the content ($10-20), and a physical device to read it off of ($20-40). If your community has lots of computers with no wireless antennas (old servers), USB keys that can be passed around make sense. If you have lots of mobile devices with wireless (phones or tablets), a hotspot like this makes sense and can be used by dozens of people at once.
In practice USB keys run a slightly higher risk of being wiped and repurposed for personal storage. Some IIAB users glue the SD card into their socket for that reason, making it take a lot longer to swap out.
At 5 cents per neuron with 4o-mini, for pretty satisfying descriptions.
"we fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to directly predict per-token activations ... [this] allows us to use smaller models, and the task of directly predicting the output (integer from 0-10) gets rid of the extra tokens, making the prompt much shorter."