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

Tue Mar 20 10:41:20 UTC 2007

Ah good point Patrice. Lots of people don't want a broadband access for
saturating the line with p2p traffic and happy to get fast web, mail and
IM by accessing to public libaries or using formulas as you describe.

Also here there are Teleworking centers with internet access to their
members but with no 24x7 or somewhat far from their homes. So neutral
networks just have to connect them there from wherever they are...

To decouple internet service provider function from the neutral network
itself doesn't mean to disconnect one from each other ;)

> 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!
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> 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 ....
>>
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