[Mesh] Community Mobile Telephony Manual - Connecting the next billion (rhizomatica)

[Shaddi Hasan]

Rhizomatica went through the process and got a license; there was 5MHz of
spectrum that had never been licensed, and they took advantage of a period
of major policy reform in Mexico to make the case for allocating it for
community use. It took several years (starting with a provisional license,
eventually getting a permanent one) and they have an awesome lawyer on
their team who helped drive it.

There are some countries in the EU that actually are fairly permissive for
low-power use of GSM bands (Netherlands I think?).

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent at otvorenamreza.org>
wrote:

> I love this!
>
> How did they not get sued for using licensed spectrum? Anything
> similar in EU would fail because telecoms and EU and national
> regulation bodies would sue you into oblivion :(
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> > this is a PDF in plain english, perhaps intended for policymakers,
> > describing
> > the process of providing connectivity (including cellular and internet
> > service)
> > to communities in a horizontal and empowering context:
> >
> > https://espectro.org.br/sites/default/files/downloads-
> formacao/MANUAL%20TIC%20ENG%20FINAL.pdf
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