[governance] A 50-Watt Cellular Network

[Milton L Mueller]

It's intriguing to see these small-scale technology initiatives and village phone looks great. However, I see references in both of your messages to decentralized business models, etc. I've searched the site and some of the blog posts quickly and see a lot of technical stuff but nothing about business or policy. Am I missing something, if so can you direct me to it? 
--MM 

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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:49 PM
To: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Yehuda Katz
Subject: Re: [governance] A 50-Watt Cellular Network

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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