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

Tue Mar 20 11:19:26 UTC 2007

Hi Everyone,

One might argue that a key strategy in addressing our common concerns, is 
the extensive use of long haul peered fibre exchanges to build a Webb to 
connect our Community Networks.

Matthew

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Matthew Asham
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wsfii-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org 
> [mailto:wsfii-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Ramon Roca
> Sent: March 20, 2007 3:41 AM
> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information 
> Infrastructure
> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Do your country's Telco Regs 
> help or hindercommunity networks?
> 
> 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!
> >
> > 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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