List of wireless community networks by region explained

Megasurf wireless internet os covering the area.

Africa

See also: South African wireless community networks.

DRC

Mesh Bukavu^{[1] [2]}

Pamoja Net^[3]

Ghana

Akwapim Community Wireless Network^{[4] [5]}

Somalia

Abaarso^[6]

South Africa

Rural Telehealth^[7]

Orange Farm

^[8]

Zenzeleni

^[9]

Home of Compassion^[10]

Tanzania

Sengerema Wireless Community Network^[11]

Kenya

TunapandaNET Community Network^[12]

Tunisia

Mesh SAYADA^{[13] [14]}

Asia

• Nepal Wireless Networking Project

Oceania

Australia

• Air Stream Wireless^[15]
• Melbourne Wireless
• TasWireless, Tasmania

Europe

Austria

FunkFeuer

Germany

• Freifunk

Greece

• Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
• Wireless Thessaloniki
• Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Network

Ireland

• CRCWN Cavan Rural Community Wireless Network. Free Wi-Fi and Fixed Wireless Internet.

(www.crcwn.online)

Italy

• ninux
• Progetto Neco

Netherlands

• Wireless Leiden

Poland

Hyperboria PL (hyperboria.net.pl)

Portugal

• Wirelesspt

Slovenia

• wlan slovenija

Spain

• guifi.net

Sweden

• Pjodd

United Kingdom

• Southampton Open Wireless Network

Americas

North America

Canada

ZAP Sherbrooke

Nova Scotia

• Chebucto Community Network, Halifax Regional Municipality

Ontario

• Toronto Mesh
• Wireless Toronto
• Wireless Nomad, Ontario and Toronto

Québec

• ZAP Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke

Cuba

• SNET (abbreviation of "Street Network"), nationwide underground community network^{[16] [17] [18]}

United States

Arizona

• Tucson Mesh, Tucson^[19]

California

• People's Open Network, Oakland^[20]

Illinois

• Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network

Minnesota

• Minneapolis wireless internet network

New York

• NYC Mesh
• Red Hook Wi-Fi

Oregon

• Personal Telco, Portland, OR

Vermont

• Newport Wireless Mesh, Newport City, Vermont

Washington

• Seattle Wireless
• Seattle Community Network

West Virginia

• West Virginia Broadband

South America

Argentina

• Altermundi

Brazil

• Coolab

See also

• Computer network
• Metropolitan area network
• Wireless community network
• Wireless mesh network
• Wireless user group

Notes and References

1. Web site: People of DR Congo will communicate using their own mesh network . https://web.archive.org/web/20180829061634/https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en/news/people-of-dr-congo-will-communicate-using-their-own-mesh-network. 2018-08-29.
2. Web site: FASTAfrica / Mesh Bukavu Workshop in Democratic Republic of Congo . 27 May 2016 .
3. Web site: Bringing the Internet to Africa's Forgotten Island .
4. Web site: VoIP on CUWiN network in rural Ghana . 5 November 2006 .
5. Web site: Wireless Ghana - A Case Study. 2023-10-05.
6. Web site: Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland .
7. Tucker. etal. William. 2007. Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication. Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC). 452–457.
8. Web site: Dabba looks set to make micro low-cost voice telco operations a reality . https://web.archive.org/web/20130724214035/http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-412/top-story/dabba-looks-set-to-m/en. 2013-07-24.
9. Web site: Home . zenzeleni.net.
10. Geerdts, C., Gillwald, A., Calandro, E., Rademan, B., and Chair, C. (2016). Developing Smart Public Wi-Fi in South Africa. (Under publication.)
11. Web site: Sengerema Wireless Community network up & Clicking! . November 2008 .
12. Web site: TunapandaNET Community Network. The United Nations have highlighted the… by Josephine Miliza Tunapanda Institute Medium. 16 April 2018.
13. Web site: Mesh Sayada : Entre fantasme et réalité . 31 May 2014 .
14. Web site: Case Study: Mesh Sayada - Building a Community Wireless Network. 2023-10-05.
15. News: Air networks take off . Harris . John . . Adelaide, Australia . 2015-12-03.
16. https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/5/15/15625950/cuba-secret-gaming-network Inside Cuba’s secretive underground gamer network
17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjJM6yYS8 Castro hates the internet, so Cubans created their own
18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycv-ZIx-1-c SNET: Cuba's Underground Internet & The Rise of Competitive Gaming
19. Web site: Tucson Mesh . 25 July 2022.
20. Web site: People's Open Network . 24 January 2021.