[wsfii-discuss] I need information on ISM Bands

Sat Jul 29 13:01:49 UTC 2006

Hi Mahabir,
Good to hear from you!
I found one website for you containing the state of de-licensing of
Wi-Fi per country:
http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/os-info/index.html
Let us know if there is more WSFII's can do for you help the situation in Nepal.
And to let you know that we have not forgotten about you there is even
a workshop being created for the Dharamsala.WSFII in october,
specially for Nepal.
You find it on:
http://summit.airjaldi.com/wiki/index.php/Shaping.WSFII.Workshops. If
it helps you, please add to the shaping of the APs.4Nepal Workshop. We
will make sure that some people of Nepal can come over to Dharamsala.
Thanks, Fred

On 7/29/06, Mahabir Pun <mahabir at himanchal.org> wrote:
> Hello All;
>
> I am in Kathmandu now for more than a week. My mission is to make ISM band
> license free in Nepal. I want to make at least Wi-fi technolgy license
> free to import and use in Nepal.
>
> Could you please let me know the names of the countries where they don't
> require license to use ISM bands? It will be helpful if you tell me the
> reasons as why some countries require to use it and why others don't? Any
> information on this
> area will be useful.
>
> The reason is that the government of Nepal now requires license to import
> Wi-fi radios and other radios using ISM bands. They also charge a license
> fee of about US$85 per year per radio on the top of duties, and taxes.
> Moreover, there are several places the importers need to bribe money to
> the government officers. Therefore the ISM band radios cost more than five
> times by the time it get to the customers.
>
> So far I organized a seminar and gave presentation the a group of the
> Members of Parliament. I invited the government minister, political
> leaders, high level government officers in the seminar and presented about
> Nepal Wireless Networking Project. We had a group discussion after that.
>
> Then I gave one-hour long presentation to a group of 15 Members of
> Parliament, who are the members of a committee called "Development
> Committe". I told them about my network and asked them to bring new laws
> for the advancement of Information Technology in Nepal. I clearly told
> them that if they don't bring liberal ICT policies, they will be
> responsible to take Nepal back to 20th century. Now I am talking to
> several other peoples related to ICT area.
>
> Any information provided by you will be helpful for me to lobbying.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mahabir Pun
>
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