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

[Ramon Roca]

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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