The recovery of information from the so called electromagnetic evanescent waves seems to be a very well explained item. Nevertheless, the travelling waves that becomes from the evanescent waves emerge from integral or differential equations that are very different to those describing the conventional ones. Indeed, we can say that the two kinds of solutions, the travelling and evanescent waves represent a mutually discriminating problem in which we cannot have simultaneous validity of both kinds of equations even they represents the physical evolution of a the same system. But if we can describe our system with a Fredholm's equation we can relate both situations through the properties of the Fredholm's eigenvalue. When the Fredholm's eigenvalue has its values into certain range then Fredholm's equation describes a normal travelling spectrum; otherwise, we are in the presence of another type of equation with abnormal or special behavior. In this work, we analyze the so-named Fredholm's alternative, which enables us to describe the change of positive refraction index-like conditions of broadcasting media to negative refraction index-like conditions. We also sketch some general conditions for the Fredholm's eigenvalue in order to establish general rules for the breaking of the waves’ confinement.