Showing posts with label community networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community networking. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Questions raised by the takeover of SNET, Havana's community network

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Last May, Cuba's Ministry of Communication (MINCOM) announced resolutions 98 and 99 limiting wireless transmission power and outdoor ca...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Cuba claims new regulations expand Internet access to homes and businesses, but here's the downside

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The new regulations establish constraints on private network transmission power and cabling that, if enforced, would put Cuba's cooperat...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Havana can have 5G before Miami

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(Click here for a Spanish translation of this post). Havana needs 5G more than Miami does. Compared to Miami, Havana is an Internet des...
Monday, April 2, 2018

A 5G, community network strategy for Cuba (and other developing nations)

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In a previous post , I suggested that Cuba might be able to leap over 4G to 5G wireless infrastructure using satellite and terrestrial netwo...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Could SNET become Cuba's Guifi.net?

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Community networks like SNET and Guifi.net are compatible with Cuba's tradition of innovation subject to constraints and socialist value...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Data on SNET and a few suggestions for ETECSA

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What would be the impact of, say, a $100,000 equipment grant from ETECSA to SNET? I've written several posts on Cuba's user-deploy...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Satellite links for interim Internet access in rural Cuba

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Decentralized, possibly privately owned and operated, satellite links were a non-starter in 2013, but the technology has improved and the po...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Why not connect the Gaspar Social streetnet to the Internet?

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Grupo creativo Gaspar Social ( source ) I've been covering Cuban streetnets (local area networks with independent users that are not...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Do-it-yourself rural fiber

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Could local people build local fiber backbones? Necessity has led Cubans to become do-it-yourself (DIY) inventors -- keeping old cars runn...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Might Cuba's street net, SNET, become legitimate?

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In earlier posts , I have described Cuba's community mesh network, Street Net (SNET), and its relationship to the government. Cachivache...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Connecting Cuban Schools

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Cuba plans to provide Internet connectivity to all schools at all levels during the next three years. We offer a few suggestions, based in ...