NETHERLANDS

• HotSpots Vinden - Google Maps show hotspots in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - over 5000 of them (as of March 2007)
• Google Maps show WiFi Hotspots in Amsterdam - courtesy of the Keyhole BBS.
• "The Netherlands - Wireless Networking" - an "International Market Insight" Report by Carlanda L. Hassoldt (2003), US Department of State.
• An English translation of the Dutch National Frequency Register is provided by Agentschap Telecom.
• Wireless Netherlands (mostly in Dutch).
• "Flexibel en doelmatig - Advies van de commissie Frequentiebeleid" (In a Flexible and Suitable Way - Recommendation of the Frequency Policy Commission), 10 June 2004, 54 pages PDF, with comments by other interested parties (all documents in Dutch).
• "Resultaten consultatie NFP2005" (Results of the Public Consultation on the Conception of the National Frequency Plan for 2005) includes many corrections and changes in the bands where unlicensed Short-Range Devices are allowed to operate.
• "Blanket Wi-Fi smothers Amsterdam" by Jan Libbenga, The Register, 2 September 2004 - describes Hotspot Amsterdam's low-cost mesh network which is expected to cover all of Amsterdam.
• "Rechter: wifi-netwerk van de buren hacken mag" [Judge: breaking into neighbor's Wi-Fi network is allowed] by Loek Essers, WebWereld, 14 March 2011, in Dutch. Summary: an appeals court in The Hague has ruled that it is not a crime to access the Internet through another person's closed Wi-Fi network, without their permission, because a Wi-Fi router does not meet the definition of a "computer" under Dutch law, and therefore the intrusion does not constitute the crime of "computer intrusion."

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