One of the reasons my city decided to go with LoRawan is exactly because it’s less complicated from the legal side of things. It’s much more complicated to work with, however, and because of Danish telecom laws any such tech comes with ridiculous restrictions that give telecom a sort of monopoly on high speed “internet”. This would also apply to threads though.

Anyway, one of the advantages a city gets is that it has a lot of locations to set up antennas. A public school, a library and so on, are all good locations that local citizens wouldn’t have access to. So the trick is to get your city to open up their LoRawan equivalent to the public. At least if you want to deploy things all over the city. Luckily mine does. It also gives you free access to power supplies if your project is benefiting the city (and open), and they are often interested in supporting you financially as well.

But as a whole, just don’t use threads.