Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are wireless networks based on outer reach technologies managed by local communities, without a centralized structure. WCNs are territorial infrastructures which allow, also through Internet connectivity, the inclusion of people and places which would otherwise be left out of telecommunications market. Engineers and sociologists have been studying these networks for many years, while legal scholars have paid very scant – if none – attention to the phenomenon. The article attempts to fill this gap, analyzing the legal context applicable to WCNs, as well as the possible implications of the diffusion of these networks in terms of civil liability.
