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Wireless Toronto; community wireless networks.
By: Hanna Cho
 

"Community wireless networks" (CWN) - this concept is closely tied to the media reform movement, and is an important feature of the ongoing telecommunications debate in the U.S., and effort to inform publics about the potential of community-based wireless broadband access, and alternative models of access.

WIKIPEDIA entry for "Wireless Community Network" (typing in "Community wireless network" redirects you to this entry) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network
  • also lists many worldwide CWN groups

http://www.ilesansfil.org – Montreal-based group that helped get the ball rolling in Toronto.
http://www.wifinetnews.com/
http://www.muniwireless.com
http://www.freepress.net/


ABOUT THE GUEST:
Hanna Cho is a Masters Student in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture between York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on the social impact of new technologies, particularly the political economy of mobile and wireless telecommunications in Canada. She is also a researcher for an ongoing project at Ryerson University that studies consumer adoption of broadband technologies in Canada: www.broadbandresearch.ca

Permanent link to bio:
http://www.ryerson.ca/~brdband/ourresearch/researchteam.html#Hanna

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