"Deep inside the warm green interior of Guinea, centered in the frontal lobe of West Africa, field personnel in the widely scattered village-towns of Dabola, Kissidougou and Nzerekore now enjoy access to regular internet e-mail, directly from their desktops. Here we have bridged the digital divide, and there isn't a telephone line or satellite dish in sight. Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles--over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs--through wavelengths of high-frequency (HF) radio. Our project is called Radio E-mail, and here is its story."
[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6299
S Woodside wrote:
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Dan Kramarsky wrote:yes, in the Congo there is wireless internet setup with 125 mile links. they use RF modems that operate at 900MHz. they only get 9600 buad tho. it is used for mainly e-mail. and i think Instant Messengers work on it too. Surfing is very slow tho.For a largely illiterate population, how useful is that?google for it.not finding much ... simon--- www.simonwoodside.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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