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

Tue Mar 20 09:44:50 UTC 2007

Friends of mine in Pula (.hr) have a wifi connection with the local 
university - informal agreement, tolerated by the uni-authorities. They 
redistribute the bandwidth by WiFi or cable around their building (a 
massive former army barrack housing 50+ CSOs). Maybe one can convince some 
institution to do the same, such outfits quite often have more bandwidth 
than they ever use...
 cheers, p+2D!

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:30:43AM +0100, Thomas Maketa wrote:
> 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 ....
> 