Oh, they aren’t going to let normal people have these until they’ve figured out how to get rid of jailbreaking/rooting once and for all. Can you imagine what would happen if people could get high on weed without failing drug tests? They wouldn’t be able to fire people for getting high off duty on their own time. Oh, the horror /s. The morons in charge of our society will never take that sitting down.
It’ll happen some day. There will eventually be “Illegal” wireless transmitting devices that do things such as transmit data over disallowed frequencies, break the token rate speed limit imposed by the fcc (fuck 56k) and illegally use encryption (using data encryption on amateur radio is illegal). When they do start becoming a thing, they’ll be able to transmit data maybe a few miles at up to a megabyte per second (not 1 megabit), or for dozens of miles at a few kilobytes per second. Depending on whether the designers wanted to prioritize speed or distance.
The technology exists to make such wireless transceivers using off the shelf parts available to normal people, there’s just no reason for them to exist. Yet.