I just don't see free access as being anything in the future, or even now, the idea for early access is what stirs people into action now, later connectivity will just be 'pervasive' so it's important to have this other element. Perhaps there is monetizing in Apps, it was discussed here and there, but no one has expressed that as a focus of The Things Network, everyone else is doing it on a local level free or with direct private commercial intent (understandable). Expand this in the future to everyone who can put down a node and gateway anywhere as part of the sensor device, when every set top cable box and Cellular plan provides LPWAN Protocol access/gateway.
The @flavio Club is a good way to create a data market ( a syndicate ) and resell the sanitized/correlated/curated data from the global groups sensors data to the wider Data market ecosystem. Create a Data market allowing anyone to monetize there sensor data on the 'open' market through TTN exclusively, (ttn shaves a cut for processing handling fee's) . @kaared @pz1 @wtebbens @wienke