Community networks finally getting the exposure they deserve
Friday, June 20th, 2008In a country like South Africa where Telkom dominate the local telecoms market, local communication is extrodinary expensive. That was untill a group of local citizens had enough and started their own wireless based network called a WUG (Wireless User Group).
The first WUG started out in Johannesburg, and then spark interest in other provinces where users started their own WUGS aswell. Recently JAWUG (Johannesburg Area Wireless User Group), PTAWUG (Pretoria Wireless User Group) and PWP (Pretoria Wireless Project) finally got to a point where they could link up their networks and bring their total connected nodes to just over 200 and covering +-140km of area.
If you are interested in finding out more about a WUG in your area please visit wug.za.net for a complete list of wugs in South Africa.
For a complete article about the networks check out the MyBroadband article.
