The federation
Twenty line cooperatives, nine exchange cooperatives, twenty user assemblies and two unions, formed in 1994. The wire belongs to the communes and the federation only works over it.
StandingLicensed, audited, no authority
Telephony is a federation of cooperatives and no organ of the Republic. It was formed in 1994 by the twenty sub-regional line cooperatives, together with the service cooperatives that run the exchanges, the core and the servers. It governs itself and publishes its rules, its membership and its accounts.
It holds a licence, and the licence is revocable. The Republic grants it, the Audit Office audits the federation in its use of common resources, and the audits are published. The federation exercises no public authority and represents no organ.
It owns almost no property. The copper, the fibre, the ducts, the poles and the mast sites are communal property. Each commune holds the plant inside its boundary. The federation operates over that plant on terms the commune sets and cannot dig, cut, reroute or erect anything without a vote.
Members51 bodies, 103 delegates
Who belongs
| Member class | Number | What they do | Delegates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-regional line cooperatives | 20 | Pull, splice and maintain the plant the communes own | 2 each |
| Exchange cooperatives | 9 | Run the exchanges, the core and the servers | 2 each |
| User assemblies | 20 | The assembly of the subscribers in each sub-region | 2 each |
| Specification group | 1 | Writes and revises the TS specifications | 1 |
| Operators and engineers | 1 | The union of the people who do the work | 2 |
103 delegates. The user assemblies have 40 of them, which is more than the line and exchange cooperatives together.
The outside world400 Gbit/s at 31 per cent
The gateway
One gateway, at Corvaluri
Everything leaving the Republic crosses a single link at the Corvaluri border station, into the Bloc network. There is no second path, no commercial transit and no satellite arrangement.
The link is a single point of failure and a single point of observation. Traffic beyond Corvaluri enters networks with their own arrangements, and the statements on this site about logs apply only within the Republic.
The link carries 400 Gbit/s and ran at a mean of 31 per cent through 2025. Proposals for a second gateway have been before the assembly three times and have been referred back each time on the ecological account.
ProcedureFour sittings a year
How it decides
The assembly meets four times a year, in public, in a different sub-region each time, with the papers out four weeks ahead. Any person may attend and the record is published within ten days.
Every decision is published with the positions taken against it and the names of those who took them.
What it cannot do
It cannot charge for a call, meter a line, disconnect a household as a penalty, hold a patent, lock a device, or install equipment that records the actions of users. Such actions are prohibited by the Constitution.
Contact100, at any hour
How to reach it
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On the telephone: The operator on 100 at any hour. Faults on 101. Anything else on 9 12 000 340.
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In writing: At any commune office, which passes it on the same day. The federation office sits at Sederna, beside the western exchange.
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In public:
#telephonyon IRC and Matrix, where the federation's operators answer questions in public.
Where a page of this site differs from the text of the Constitution, the text governs. Any person may report the difference and receive a reasoned answer. The Public Register publishes the text and the directory of sites.