The Open Spectrum Alliance is a coalition of companies, organizations, and individuals working to unlock the potential benefits of bandwidth for all.
Current methods of spectrum regulation are based upon the assumption of scarcity reflecting the technologies of the early 20th Century. "Smart" radio technologies support far more efficient and productive methods of spectrum management.
The Open Spectrum Alliance is united by the goal of realizing the potential social and economic benefits of this underutilized natural resource by promoting innovative public policies

Sometimes people think that guifi.net is rare. But isn't because of being a strange exception, there are causes which can be explained, not only about innovative technologies, also because enabling new business models, more open, efficient & fair, because provides new opportunities, and all of this providing sustainability.

This short presentation intends to describe the new business models created by deploying open & neutral networks at the last mile based on the guifi.net experience and explains why keeps growing while other business models are failing because of remaining digital divide.

It seems that the same security arguments that lead to unjustified and threatening law proposals to civil rights since 9/11 is now used to approve

more laws that, in the name of "our security" (not homeland security necessarily), will widen the already open door to our privacy.

Very brief presentation positioning what's guifi.net, what we are doing, how we can cooperate with other livings labs.

• OpenOffice
• PDF

Quite late, I send some photos of the 'plantada' (like 'Las Fallas') of the first node in Castellon de la Plana.

This node is located on the Library of the Universitat Jaume I.

Thanks to Lluís Dalmau, Alejandro Perez and colleagues of the Servei d'Informàtica of the University and José Vicente Talón.

A Living Lab is a research and open innovation environment in real-life settings in which user-driven innovation is the cocreation process for new services, products and societal infrastructures. Living Labs encompass societal and technological dimensions simultaneously in a business-citizensgovernment- academia partnership.

List of new ENoLL members

We, at guifi.net, have an interest in the public consultation on the next generation public access (NGA) networks, and are pleased to share our concerns and suggestions

• About who we are and what we do
• Current issues of concern to propose solutions
  1. Enable wholesale availability to all at the FTTN
  2. Explicit recognition for open networks built by peer to peer agreements at the user loop
  3. Promote best practices / unlicensed spectrum
  4. Clarification of unlicensed spectrum regulations
• Closing considerations

At guifi.net we have been working during the last weeks to enable our platform for deploying open network projects worldwide and looking for opportunities for doing so.

Now, in cooperation with GAIA [1] ,  ITSMA [2] and other partners, we're starting a project in Bangalore (India) to deliver sustainable social enabled open networks in a rural area to fight digital divide and social exclusion.

The Jury from National Radio broadcast, Television, Internet and Telecommunications Awards declares the 2007 winners.;

The jury of the National National Radio broadcast, Television, Internet and Telecommunications Awards decided to galardonate in the Radio broadcast category, the broadcast radio RAC1; in the television category, the TV3 program La nit al Dia, driven by the journalist Mònica Terribas, in the Internet category, the web site of Icat FM, in the Telecommunications category, the Guifi.net Telecommunications network, and an honorific mention to the Journalist Francina Boris. The awards giving ceremony will take place next november 6ht, in the little room of Palau de la Música Catalana.

Some pictures about the SAX2007:

• Albir's Àlbum
• From Wesley & the freifunkers:
• Meetings & Events
• Eating & Socialzing
• Outdoors & Landscapes

We have a new assault within the battle for the net “neutrality” (in this case the one between the operators and the content providers). This duel of giants began when the big operators threatened influence in the Internet to be able to discriminate between the contents. Now Google response is a bid in the next auction of frequencies at 700MHz in the United States. Google is wanted to turn a new operator of telecommunications? According to them not necessarily, they want to buy the frequency as long as an access can be done “opened”, following the Internet principles.