Chebucto Community Network

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The Chebucto Community Network (CCN) is a Canadian FreeNet operating in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). It is registered as a non-profit society under Nova Scotia's Registry of Joint Stocks using the name Chebucto Community Net Society.

Established in 1994 by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University, it was previously known as the Metro Community Access Network Society. CCN is currently run as a non-profit volunteer organization with representatives from across the municipality. CCN provides people in the HRM with Internet "tools and services for sharing the broadest range of information, experience, ideas, and wisdom."

The early CCN offered a text-based Bulletin board system (BBS) that provided access to community information through the Internet. The CCN continues to provide Internet services for individuals and non-profit groups, including dial-up, telnet and web hosting. One of CCN's projects is a Hotspot (Wi-Fi) service whereby volunteers use their wireless routers along with a premium service 1-888 access number to provide Internet service outside the local calling area of Halifax for its members . CCN continues to be affiliated with Dalhousie University in Halifax with its registered office located at the university's Computing and Information Services department.

CCN is a member of ACORN, the Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks. The column "The Mouse Pad" which is published in the Chronicle-Herald is a CCN authored publication.