[governance] A 50-Watt Cellular Network

[McTim]

Hi Siva.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
<isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
> VNL's present focus appears to be cellular telephone services while Village
> Telco's interests lie in Wifi / mesh networking.

The mesh potato is designed to do telephony, can do data, but not
optimised for it.



>
> If these disruptive technologies are used to provide Internet Access
> solutions, there is a possibility of solutions beyond telecom dependent
> networking.
>

indeed.

> Village Telco's business model (of retaining profits for rural and informal
> settlements rather than feeding a telco) is an indication that
> telco-independent infrastructure and business models are feasible.
>

That's the plan.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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