List of wireless community networks by region

This is a list of Community networks around the world.

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

Czechia

cs:CZFree.Net

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

References

1. "People of DR Congo will communicate using their own mesh network". Archived from the original on 29 August 2018.
2. "FASTAfrica / Mesh Bukavu Workshop in Democratic Republic of Congo". 27 May 2016.
3. "Bringing the Internet to Africa's Forgotten Island".
4. "VoIP on CUWiN network in rural Ghana". 5 November 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014.
5. "Wireless Ghana - A Case Study" (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2023.
6. "Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland".
7. Tucker, William; et al. (2007). "Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication". Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference: 452–457.
8. "Dabba looks set to make micro low-cost voice telco operations a reality". Archived from the original on 24 July 2013.
9. "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. "Sengerema Wireless Community network up & Clicking!". November 2008.
12. "TunapandaNET Community Network. The United Nations have highlighted the… | by Josephine Miliza | Tunapanda Institute | Medium". 16 April 2018.
13. "Mesh Sayada : Entre fantasme et réalité". 31 May 2014.
14. "Case Study: Mesh Sayada - Building a Community Wireless Network" (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2023.
15. Harris, John (3 December 2015). "Air networks take off". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Adelaide, Australia.
16. Inside Cuba’s secretive underground gamer network, Polygon, 15 May 2017
17. Castro hates the internet, so Cubans created their own, Vox Video, 5 October 2015
18. SNET: Cuba's Underground Internet & The Rise of Competitive Gaming, Polygon Video, 15 May 2017
19. "Tucson Mesh" . Retrieved 25 July 2022.
20. "People's Open Network" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.