That's also part of the solution; shorter distances between towers
mean less alignment problems and much lower power requirements, and
the reduced marginal cost to add dishes and transceivers to the same
tower naturally lead to a finer mesh of wireless links.
A few sciency facts
1) smaller planets will have sharper curvatures of the surface, limiting the
distances of directional radio.
2) if the distance between colonies contains untamed land, rivers, marshes,
and so on, you will not want to lay a raw cable. If you don't own the
property between the sites, then you either build cable around, or use MW*.
3) accurate unified GPS/alignment system will allow antennas to find each
other
(perhasps use a database or simple radio broadcast to locate each other)
* Unless there is legislation allowing them to tax broadcast transmissions
over their proprty**.
** Dont' laugh -- there are some ongoing law suits about this IRL...
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Eric Funk
"Knowledge Brings Fear" -- Motto of Mars University, Futurama
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