Ramani
Member • Oct 2, 2013
Mexico sees its first open-source village cellphone network
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Using simple radio receivers, a laptop and relatively inexpensive Internet technologies, the people of the village have leapfrogged into the 21st century by setting up what amounts to their own mini-telecom company — one capable of handling 11 cellphone calls at a time at a small fraction of what they used to pay.
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Mexico sees its first open-source village cellphone network
This item figured in the Engineering for Change newsletter.
May be some CEan can try this out in some remote village. Can be a ECE project.
Using simple radio receivers, a laptop and relatively inexpensive Internet technologies, the people of the village have leapfrogged into the 21st century by setting up what amounts to their own mini-telecom company — one capable of handling 11 cellphone calls at a time at a small fraction of what they used to pay.
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Mexico sees its first open-source village cellphone network
This item figured in the Engineering for Change newsletter.
May be some CEan can try this out in some remote village. Can be a ECE project.