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Mexico: Cofetel approves free spectrum for wireless internet |
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Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
Cofetel, Mexico's telecommunications regulator, approved the use of some radio spectrum bands without requiring a license.
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Low Cost Access and Connectivity - Local Solutions |
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
A UN ICT Task Force Working Group Paper Series The emergence of modern Information and Communication technologies from radio and telephones to wireless Internet applications has helped people all over the world. In industrialized countries these tools have played an integral part in economic, social and political development providing means for communication, information and knowledge sharing.
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Progressive Policy Reform of the Public Airwaves |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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Wireless technologies and the public airwaves that are this medium's lifeblood are rapidly being cordoned off, made proprietary, and licensed -- a process being driven by a desire to maximize profit margins, not serve the public good. A refocusing of priorities on "open infrastructures" that better serve the general public is desperately needed. These systems should be predicated on utilizing open spectrum, open source software, and open architecture hardware. |
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TELPIN: Community Democratization of TCCs in Argentina |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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In Argentina, telecommunications community cooperatives (TCCs) were created by community conscious members to fill in for the State role when it was unable to provide telephone service in remote areas, generally marginalized from services provision. In 1989, the State telephone enterprise was privatized. |
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USA conflict about municipal wireless |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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Municipalities running public wireless networks are following with great interest the developments in USA congress regarding 2 new bills recently submitted. |
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Telephone cooperatives to build long distance network in Bolivia |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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A wireless network of their own is the primary objective of the telephone cooperatives operating in Bolivia. The network will allow long distance calls to be routed through a central base which will exchange calls from different cooperatives all over the country as a local phone call. Complete information in Spanish follows. |
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Free wireless networks on the way in Lima, Peru |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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Peru Wireless, an association of professionals, is promoting in Lima (Peru) the idea of building free wireless networks to share connectivity and information across the city, in parallel to the commercial wireless services offered by ISPs. Complete information follows, in Spanish. |
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Control over EPM in discussion in Colombia |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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A discussion regarding the ownership of the telecommunications company Empresas Públicas de Medellín EPM in Colombia has begun following the release of a draft agreement to transform the company. The city legislators, the company manager, the national secretaries of treassure and planning meet for several hours to discuss the pitfalls of the agreement regarding the political and fiscal control of the company and its affiliates. The complete information in Spanish follows. |
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Huawei to invest a million dollars in telephone cooperatives in Argentina |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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Huawei, a chinese telecomunications company, signed an agreement with Argentina's telephone cooperatives to install a telephone factory in City Bell, Argentina. The devices will operate in the 450 Mhz frequency. The effort aimed no only to address the Argentinian market but also to expand to the Mercosur countries. The complete information follows, in Spanish. |
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Flexible networking, ICT and local economic development |
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Written by Sylvia Cadena
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Wednesday, 29 June 2005 |
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This paper, produced by Michael Gurstein examines the impact of information technologies on rural communities and suggests new efforts to support local economies with globally connected networks. |
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