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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/08/2016 22:02, Ted Mooney wrote:<br>
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<p>I hope so too, Vint. Guifi.net was featured at our last
Community Forum in June on Community Networking. Here's a link
to the background material .</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8312280853/1/f_70089054693"
class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk891007">https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8312280853/1/f_70089054693</a><br>
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And here's a link to the recorded Community forum
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8609984629/Jun_2016_Community_Networking"
class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk107951">https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8609984629/Jun_2016_Community_Networking</a></div>
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How sustainable are these initiatives in the long term?<br>
I am asking because I cannot stop remembering FON -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON</a><br>
I remember being a member back in 2006, less than a year after
launch, and it was all so community-based, yet in order to survive
it ended up needing to strike corporate deals with Telcos &
ISPs, as shown on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fon.com/wifi-solutions/">https://fon.com/wifi-solutions/</a><br>
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I am not saying it is a bad thing, but can a community network
survive in today's bandwidth hungry world if it doesn't strike a
deal with an ISP?<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</a>
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