Anyone can use the community network. The users are free from controlon their postings. Accessible and inexpensive. The systems are readily accessible from several public and private locations. Furthermore the systems are free of charge or have a very low charge.
Users can design or co design new user interfaces.
The author concludes that community networks have created a movement with 'great potential' with a 'renewing attitude'. Applications, Implications, Adam, J.A., IEEE Spectrum, March 1993, pp. According to Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the institute for the Future, Menlo Park, Calif. The author disagrees. More reasons for the likely early adoption are to be found in the cost.