We do plan on making base stations in the future; since they wouldn’t have to be as small/convenient to have on a person — a consideration when designing goTenna Mesh — we will have less constraints on size/weight and whatnot. It’s definitely in our product pipeline but not spec’d out or committed to quite yet, as we want to make improvements & enhancements to goTenna Mesh first, and also get more of them out there in people’s hands (after all, we barely started shipping a few months ago!) so we make sure we design accessory products (like a base station) with as much user feedback data as possible. In meantime we definitely want to build as much new functionality into goTenna Mesh as a lightweight base station! After all new hardware takes quite some time! 
I definitely do see us as a protocol company (more on that here in this TechCrunch article) and want to see the core of our technology — our mesh protocol — embedded into anything/everything that can find utility for it at-scale. Licensing the protocol itself and figuring out how we might open-source different parts of our technology (while maintaining a business) is also on my strategic roadmap, but as with my reply above… more to come before we get there, including advancing the protocol further so it can work stably on nonproprietary hardware and, frankly, can simply do more things than it does today! Big improvements coming already early next year (hint: more hops)!