[wsfii-discuss] Do your country's Telco Regs help or hinder community networks?

[Thomas Maketa]

Hi Ramon,
I think that by neutral network you mean something like just interconnecting
individuals and building a "backbone", that is suitable when you have
individuals having internet connection and wanting to build a "citizen
network", but here we have very few people having Internet at homes because
the cost to install internet is very expensive : 500USd for installation
equipment and 120USd monthly fees.
So our plan is to reduce that amount and make people able to install for the
cost of hardware and pay between 20 and 40 USD for a month just to pay
Internet bandwidth, maintenance, salaries ....

On 3/19/07, Ramon Roca <ramon.roca at guifi.net> wrote:
>
> As a suggestion: Given the fact that you are not thinking in make big $
> by network access fees, have you considered to simply build neutral
> network, no fees, and just get paid for materials and labour to
> workaround this?
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