Jaume Barcelo is a Spanish post-doctoral researcher who co-founded the bottom-up broadband project in Barcelona. He works on spreading the concept of user-owned bottom-up networks that will eventually overcome the bottleneck of the “last mile”, an economic hurdle that has kept telecom operators from providing decent internet access to many potential users. Telecom operators cite the “last mile” as a problem, because according to the logic of the current business model it is not profitable to connect people if there aren’t enough of them living within a certain radius, roughly a mile, of a broadband distribution point. Jaume, wrote a paper describing the philosophy behind bottom-up networks and giving examples of some such networks that already exist. The paper promotes the concept and gives some examples, rather than providing a complete listing of current initiatives, showing how eventually the telecoms’ last mile may be taken out of the equation, as there is an already connected community to service, not just individual users. Jaume’s paper, titled “Bottom-up Broadband: Free Software Philosophy Applied To Networking Initiatives” is available as a PDF document
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:08:48 +0000
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