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CMT wants to give the green light 'indefinitely' to the municipal Wi-fi connections |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
 The Spanish Commission for the Telecommunications Market (CMT), the sector regulator, has opened a public consultation on the provision of telecommunications services via Wi-Fi by the government.
The consultation has as main object to involve private operators and local authorities to try to establish clear rules and basic conditions in which these governments can provide services to citizens and to what extent these services, usually paid with public money, may constitute unfair competition.
Now, the regulation Servicing states that governments should provide these services in return for payment. It also includes an exception for "local entities" who want to give free service temporarily and according to specific conditions determined by the CMT.
The intention of the regulator would be to relax this rule to authorize a permanent provision of these services in those municipalities (usually small) in which there is no private alternative, while still maintaining restrictions like those imposed in Barcelona, in commercially attractive areas.
The CMT has been taking ad hoc decisions, as expedients were presented, but now wants to achieve a stable legal environment and clear rules, although, predictably, telecommunications operators will be against opening the municipal networks indefinitely.
Read the article on madridmasd.org (spanish)
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