[wsfii-discuss] Pre-alert situation in Argentina, please help & advice

Sun Nov 25 18:26:45 UTC 2012

Thanks for your comments kdag,

Nothing written yet, Nicolás will work on writing the note with the 
latest news on the field and keep us updated.

By now is just a heads-up call, still with the hope that things will not 
get worst, but however warming alert just in case.

R.

Al 25/11/12 18:12, En/na kdag ha escrit:
> hola ramon, hola nicolas, is there any translation of this message to 
> spanish done already? i could help posting it on a couple of other 
> places and have more people aware, sounds like a delicate situation 
> there hope they can inform better the "regulators" about what the 
> project is about and the consumer grade appliances in use.
> thanks for the heads--up anyhow, we just revamped -medellinwireless- 
> with the great mesh-potato hardware... still far from the fiber optic 
> you guys at guifi net have already achieved. :)
> /a
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ramon Roca <ramon.roca at guifi.net 
> <mailto:ramon.roca at guifi.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Sorry for cross-posting, and in English for a wider audience.
>
>     Last friday, colleagues from a community wireless which is
>     cooperating with us in a small village in Argentina got a visit
>     from representatives of the CNC (Comisión Nacional de las
>     Comunicaciones). Seems that the inspection was caused by a claim
>     from Telecom, a local mobile operator affiliated to Movistar
>     (Telefonica), arguing that was interfering to their backbone links.
>
>     The inspected nodes are actually composed by low cost wifi
>     routers, working al 2.4 band, using the Argentinian regulatory
>     domain, which is region 2 of the UIT (same as in the US), with a
>     power between 50mW and 100mW and serving Internet to a primary
>     school, and some families in a low-income neighborhood.
>
>     Our colleagues are very much concerned because of the lack of
>     regulations in Argentina. Looks like those CNC officials will come
>     back next Thursday asking for shutting down the nodes, or even
>     confiscation of the equipment. Although wifi equipment has been
>     widely extended in Argentina, the concern is that looks like there
>     are some old regulations which require discretionary legalization
>     for any radio equipment, and CNC can invoke those regulations for
>     this purpose.
>
>     That's why IMHO we are facing a pre-alert situation in Argentina
>     that requires to stay tuned on how evolves.
>
>     My first impression is that this kind of equipment and and this
>     band is very unlikely the cause for any disturbance for mobile
>     operators, therefore my first advice to them has been to cooperate
>     with the authorities for any technical assessments on site related
>     to the spectrum analysis, with the hope that the story will finish
>     here.
>
>     But in the meantime and just in case:
>
>      1. Please stay tuned in what happens next Thursday. In case of
>         the network being forced for shutdown or being confiscated, we
>         plan to release a press note reporting those facts, which we
>         believe that might be a serious injury of fundamental rights
>         from citizens from governments and large-corporations, so we
>         will ask for you cooperation disseminating though blogs and
>         social networks worldwide.
>      2. Does anybody know from a local legal contact from Argentina
>         who may assist this wireless community? If someone has a
>         contact, please let me know.
>      3. Any other advice/idea?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Ramon.
>
>
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