WiFi Regulations around the world

[Steve Song]

Hi all,

In a related project to Village Telco, I am trying to build a compendium of WiFi regulations around the world (focusing on Africa first) to highlight that there is still a lot of work to be done in having WiFi regulations that truly enabled local wireless infrastructure development.

You can find it at https://decentralizethis.org/WiFi_Regulations

If you would like to contribute to this, please do register (https://decentralizethis.org/Special:RequestAccount) and contribute to the wiki.  Alternatively, if you can simply point me to regulations where relevant in your country, I am happy to do the leg work of updating the wiki.

Regards... Steve

[Haiti Connect]

Steve,

 

Excellent initiative.

The lack of a central resource on global regulations came up during discussion at the recent WLAN Professionals conference in the Netherlands.

I will share the URL’s with that community.

Should be good for some input.

 

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[Song, Stephen]

Thanks Evert!

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[T Gillett]

Hi Steve

Some info from the Australian regulatory body ACMA

http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Consumer-info/My-connected-home/Wireless-local-area-networks

And a paper on proposed arrangements for 5GHz

http://acma.gov.au/webwr/radcomm/frequency_planning/spps/0001spp.pdf

Regards

Terry

[Song, Stephen]

Thanks Terry!  Exactly the sort of info I am after.

Cheers... Steve

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[Carlos Rey-Moreno]

Hi Steve, great initiative!

These two papers might be a bit old, but they included a lot of information about African and some Latinamerican countries, respestively. Hope it helps:

http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/viewFile/206/76
http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/download/204/74

I've also forwarded the email to a list of researchers/practitioners from Latin America, from my times at www.ehas.org who I think they can help as well. 

I see South Africa is already covered, so I can add little more.

carlos

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[Glen Steedman]

Whilst not the official source, i like the format of the table and the information that is laid out for the 2.4 , 5ghz in this band plan , for power and width 

http://www.wisp.net.au/5ghz-channel-spectral-width-australia-pm-16.html

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[ronald munjoma]

Hi Steve,

​I am getting the below error when requesting an account:

Database error

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

Best and Regards

Ronald Munjoma

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Regards... Steve

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[ronald munjoma]

Hi Glen,

On 25 November 2014 at 06:45, Glen Steedman <gste...@gmail.com> wrote:

Whilst not the official source, i like the format of the table and the information that is laid out for the 2.4 , 5ghz in this band plan , for power and width 

http://www.wisp.net.au/5ghz-channel-spectral-width-australia-pm-16.html

​For Zimbabwe I would like to add the attached directive from Potraz

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[Song, Stephen]

Hi Ronald,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:36 AM, ronald munjoma <sim...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Glen,

On 25 November 2014 at 06:45, Glen Steedman <gste...@gmail.com> wrote:

Whilst not the official source, i like the format of the table and the information that is laid out for the 2.4 , 5ghz in this band plan , for power and width 

http://www.wisp.net.au/5ghz-channel-spectral-width-australia-pm-16.html

​For Zimbabwe I would like to add the attached directive from Potraz

That's excellent, thank you!  In particular it is useful because it brings up a subtlety that I really want to highlight in this resource, that is the focus on PtP and PtMP connectivity with unlicensed spectrum.  Zimbabwe is the perfect case in point.  While it is legal to have WiFi hotspots in Zimbabwe, all PtP and PtMP connectivity that extends beyond a private property requires a license.  Further I was directly informed by the regulator when I was in Zimbabwe last year that POTRAZ does not issue licenses for PtP/PtMP WiFi.

Thus while the regulations appear to sanction WiFi connectivity, it is only for hotspots.  Namibia is similar for WiFi but they have not specifically come out and said that they will not issue licenses in the ISM bands.  I would not have known about POTRAZ's position had I not specifically asked them in person.  I am unaware however whether this is specifically recorded anywhere or if it is simply a matter of practice.

Regards... Steve

 

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[Song, Stephen]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks!  I was familiar Isabel's work in Africa but not Hernan's.  Both are very thoughtful explorations of ISM regulation.  Unfortunately they are both about 10 years old now which emphasises to me how important it is to update this information (given how much the role of WiFi has changed) and to advocate for the harmonisation of ISM band regulation to enable rural access.

In Isabel's work in particular is useful from a taxonomic point of view. They make the following categories:

Unlicensed, no registration

Unlicensed, registration

Licensed, automatic

Licensed, not automatic.

I am still working out exactly what the distinction between Unlicensed, registration and Licensed, automatic is.

I think at the very least this information needs to be coupled with spectrum fee information because the financial barrier can often be larger than the administrative one.  I think this is the case in Malawi for instance where the annual fee is more than the price of the equipment.

Cheers... Steve

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[Song, Stephen]

Hi Ronald,

Apologies, that is fixed now.  If you try again, it should work.

Cheers... Steve

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