Any one heard of corDect that is Internet Access thru WLL ? I have seen this working in India.
http://www.tenet.res.in/cordect/cordect.html --Rajiv
--- Begin Message --- Title: RE: [ilugd]: Wireless Internet AcceseDistribution of internet access is allowed only to holders of ISP licence in India.
Any other person doing so in any manner would be breaking the law.Sputnik or other products may be used indoors - within a hotel or corporate or even in your home.
The problem with the scenario you paint is :
1. Wireless access : is allowed indoors. If you forget password and neighbours login - you are liable. Your radio signal should not go outside your premises and it's your responsability to see that it is so. ( Yes I know how technically unsound this is..). Most often this law is overlooked because people who use wireless indoors have some mechanism to prevent unauthorized access.
2. Distributing internet bandwidth : Only ISP licence holders are allowed to do this. Anybody else attempting is breaking the law. End users or subscribers are explicitly prohibited by Law from re-distributing bandwidth for love or for money. Check the small print of your ISP's user guide.
Therefore, the scenario you painted will get you into trouble on two counts - if you get caught / are reported by you jelous local area cablewalah. The technical loophole is in proving guilt on these counts. But then I guess your local cablewalah may not follow a legal recourse..
The law is, however, clear on this subject.
Prashast Kumar
ICO
NIIT Ltd.
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From: Sandip Bhattacharya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Wireless Internet Accese
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:26:53PM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta spoke out thus:
> What will your ISP say about this? And are you not then an ISP, and need to be licenced?Sputnik specifically mentions this in it's Acceptable Use policy
[http://www.sputnik.com/network/aups.html]. Distributing ISP allocated
bandwidth is generally a no-no for most ISPs and for some good reason.But what I am curious to know is does the usage of Sputnik makes
anyone in India liable for legal infringement?What if I want to setup Sputnik in an office so that those with Laptops
can move around freely between the rooms? What if I want to use it
at home so that I can sit in my apartment lawn to access the Net?Sputnik has strong user authentication. So using it and letting my
father browse the Net from his desktop accessing Sputnik as his access
point, is equivalent of running a local LAN in my home. And so what
happens if I "forget" to set the pasword to my Sputnik network access
point? Am I suddenly getting regarded as an unlicenced ISP?My point is aren't there too many gray areas in this technology? Or
probably the law was made without the knowledge of such technologies
emerging.My guess is that we will soon see proliferation of Sputnik or
Sputnik-like technologies in and around India, albeit in very small
pockets, but it is an extremely slippery subject for enforcing of any
restrictions.- Sandip
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Mindframe Software
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