| Efforts of PTS relation to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) - 19/02/2020 |
| Post and Telephone Authority (PTS) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | Sweden |
| PTS has formed a crisis response team that is closely monitoring and responding to developments in coronavirus. Provides regular status reports for other companies and communications providers to heed. Issues such as effects on the electronic communications sector and the postal sector, Broadband capacity in light of increased remote working, etc. are treated in this website. Swedish broadband ca (...) |
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| OSIPTEL recommends operating companies to provision more bandwidth - 17/02/2020 |
| Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Peru |
| Within the framework of the State of Emergency with mandatory social isolation, in which a more intense use of telecommunications networks is expected, OSIPTEL recommended that the companies operating these services supply themselves with more bandwidth in all segments of the network to guarantee their continuity of services at the national level during compulsory social isolation. |
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| Suspension of cuts of essential services to vulnerable clients due to non-payment - 30/01/2020 |
| Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (ENaCom) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Argentine Republic |
| The companies that provide fixed or mobile telephony services, Internet and cable TV, by radio or satellite link, may not have the services cut off to users at risk or social vulnerability in case of non-payment of up to 3 invoices, with expiration dates after March 1, 2020, as ordered by the Ministry of Productive Development, which established the provision of a limited service in such cases. |
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| Gig enabling the unconnected - 15/01/2020 |
| Janastu |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | India (Republic of) |
| Two from our team just made it back from a field visit to Mirzapur a day before lockdown. The plan was to introduce mesh networks and Pi recorders to get young women to share living stories from the community. But after COVID-19 lockdown, we had to re-strategise. The team started working from home and unsure of when we could physically travel again. Lockdown has been miserable for many migrant wor (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: lockdown stories, platforms, relief communications, inclusion, minorities, crafts and the handmade |
| GeoMeo Informatics - Low cost wireless solution - 01/01/2020 |
| GeoMeo Informatics |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | India (Republic of) |
| Geomesh is a wire-free modular multi-radio wireless mesh router specially designed to provide connectivity in the remote area where alternative access either doesn’t exist or is too expensive. The device designed with a powerful CPU and inbuild storage to provide seamless offline/online connectivity. The device powered by the meshOS which support installing the various decentralized application on (...) |
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| Connecting the unconnected - 16/06/2019 |
| Pragathi Foundation |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | India (Republic of) |
| In the last one month, the mobile radio station has visited 60 villages in Tumakuru district and has reached over 25,000 people - said one english daily, Deccan herald on 08th May. Namma Halli Radio, Namdu1Radio.com is a platform to express yourself. With main focus on vernacular local languages and dialects, school students and volunteers help with designing, recording and editing the audio progr (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: community mesh, community radio, mobile van, emergency communications, covid-19 campaign |