[Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures

[Jane Coffin]

Hi Olivier –

Some community networks are ISPs.
Some community networks are their own sustainable charging networks with authorizations and spectrum allocations – providing 2G/3G.
Some negotiate for backhaul and cut deals.
Some train-trainers and create antennae from scrap metal and/or teach communities how to build the networks.
Some community networks (like many Internet start-ups) are given seed-funding and survive on their own through a commons based approach (like Guifi).
Some may be goobled up by the big guys as they are more “viable”

Some have created mini Internet ecosystems around them – online business, radio stations, and cyber cafes.

Some may fail – like many start-ups

We are trying to look at what success models look like and where those have been adapted and to convene folks to that some mistakes are avoidable.
Each community is different and ultimately some communities are shut out from having lower-cost simple comms due to regulatory, policy, or corporate issues. (note some mesh networks in the US are not allowed to operate in some zones where big cable companies operate…tricky).

Best,
Jane


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From: Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on behalf of Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
Date: Friday, August 5, 2016 at 3:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures


On 03/08/2016 22:02, Ted Mooney wrote:

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 .

https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8312280853/1/f_70089054693


And here's a link to the recorded Community forum
https://isoc.app.box.com/files/0/f/8609984629/Jun_2016_Community_Networking

How sustainable are these initiatives in the long term?
I am asking because I cannot stop remembering FON - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON
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 https://fon.com/wifi-solutions/

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?

Kindest regards,

Olivier



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