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

Thu Mar 22 12:09:42 UTC 2007

Hello Ramon

> To avoid becoming an ISP given and the related difficulties, what about if
> the users share internet access instead of paying a fee to a "reseller"
> ISP, that is, they pay directly that fee to the provider? Or you are able
> to provide Internet Access by yourself at better costs that if they buy
> the access directly?
full ack.

> The big point is to avoid the figure of becoming an network operator by
> squeezing an owned network and renting it, by simply help people to build
> and maintain their own neutral networks.
> 
> You just have to split the user expenses in two: One will go directly to
> the real ISP, and the other, to the maintainers for labour and materials.
> 
> This is how we are running here.
This is about the same we currently running our network here in Berlin.
Some other cities in Germany do the same.

Regards

Daniel

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Angewandte Informatik - Computer Aided Facility Managemnt
FHTW Berlin (http://www.fhtw-berlin.de)

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