Hi, during my lobbying work in CEPT SE43 I had a chance to meet Luciana Camargos. She was previously working at Anacom, the Brazilian regulator, and when I met her she was working as a "hired gun" (lobbyist) advocating White Spaces in Europe, on Microsoft's payroll. I can get you in touch if you want...
I will forward your message anyway, given this list is publicly archived... Alex On 11/25/2012 05:42 PM, Ramon Roca wrote: > > Sorry for cross-posting, and in English for a wider audience. > > Last friday, colleagues from a community wireless which is cooperating > with us in a small village in Argentina got a visit from > representatives of the CNC (Comisión Nacional de las Comunicaciones). > Seems that the inspection was caused by a claim from Telecom, a local > mobile operator affiliated to Movistar (Telefonica), arguing that was > interfering to their backbone links. > > The inspected nodes are actually composed by low cost wifi routers, > working al 2.4 band, using the Argentinian regulatory domain, which is > region 2 of the UIT (same as in the US), with a power between 50mW and > 100mW and serving Internet to a primary school, and some families in a > low-income neighborhood. > > Our colleagues are very much concerned because of the lack of > regulations in Argentina. Looks like those CNC officials will come > back next Thursday asking for shutting down the nodes, or even > confiscation of the equipment. Although wifi equipment has been widely > extended in Argentina, the concern is that looks like there are some > old regulations which require discretionary legalization for any radio > equipment, and CNC can invoke those regulations for this purpose. > > That's why IMHO we are facing a pre-alert situation in Argentina that > requires to stay tuned on how evolves. > > My first impression is that this kind of equipment and and this band > is very unlikely the cause for any disturbance for mobile operators, > therefore my first advice to them has been to cooperate with the > authorities for any technical assessments on site related to the > spectrum analysis, with the hope that the story will finish here. > > But in the meantime and just in case: > > 1. Please stay tuned in what happens next Thursday. In case of the > network being forced for shutdown or being confiscated, we plan to > release a press note reporting those facts, which we believe that > might be a serious injury of fundamental rights from citizens from > governments and large-corporations, so we will ask for you > cooperation disseminating though blogs and social networks worldwide. > 2. Does anybody know from a local legal contact from Argentina who > may assist this wireless community? If someone has a contact, > please let me know. > 3. Any other advice/idea? > > Thanks, > Ramon. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsfii-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/wsfii-discuss
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