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VillageCell: Cost Effective Cellular Connectivity in <endeca_term>Rural Areas</endeca_term>

VillageCell: Cost Effective Cellular Connectivity in Rural Areas

...network coverage is often lacking in low population densities and low income rural areas of the developing world, where big telecoms often defer from deploying... Read more

4 November, 2011

Faster, cheaper broadband coming to rural areas this summer

...The regulator said it may also lead to faster broadband services in rural areas, as ISPs could allocate more bandwidth per customer. Ofcom is also... Read more

20 January, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
In the field with Newquay 4G trials

In the field with Newquay 4G trials

...on the right track to provide high-speed internet to people in rural areas without the need for fixed-line connections.The company has been... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Vodafone to use femtocells to boost rural 3G

...Vodafone plans to use femtocell technology to boost 3G mobile reception in rural areas and is looking for a dozen towns to take part in... Read more

3 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Northern Ireland gets £4.4m in broadband funding

...and around £4m for Wiltshire. The money is being given to largely rural areas of the UK that would not normally attract investment from commercial... Read more

15 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

BT forced to cut rural broadband wholesale rates

...a move that could lead to cheaper broadband prices for consumers in rural areas. On Wednesday, the regulator said BT must cut its wholesale service... Read more

20 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Ofcom proposes BT wholesale rural price cuts

...wholesale prices for ISPs that use its infrastructure to deliver broadband to rural areas. BT should cut its wholesale prices by between 10.7 percent... Read more

20 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Spectrum refarming promises rural broadband boost

...calls and text messaging is now available for bringing the internet to rural areas, as Ofcom has allowed the reuse of 2G spectrum for 3G... Read more

6 January, 2011 by David Meyer

BBC licence fee to help fund superfast broadband rollouts

...reveals £530m cash pot for universal 2Mbps service and superfast broadband in rural areas The government has revealed that £530m of public money will be... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

BBC set to subsidise broadband. Why?

...this straight: the public is going to pay to bring broadband to rural areas while those in urban areas get it for -- well, not nothing... Read more

24 June, 2010
HopScotch-A Low-Power Renewable Energy Base Station Network for Rural Broadband Access

HopScotch-A Low-Power Renewable Energy Base Station Network for Rural Broadband Access

The provision of adequate broadband access to communities in sparsely populated rural areas has in the past been severely restricted. In this paper, the... Read more

16 March, 2012
Evaluating Transceiver Power Savings Produced by Connectivity Strategies for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks

Evaluating Transceiver Power Savings Produced by Connectivity Strategies for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks

...Networks (I-WMNs) are increasingly used to bridge the digital divide in rural areas around the world. Rural African areas in particular require energy efficient... Read more

11 July, 2011
Traffic Characterization and Internet Usage in Rural Africa

Traffic Characterization and Internet Usage in Rural Africa

...reached a significant part of the world's population, those living in rural areas of the developing world are still largely disconnected. Recent efforts have... Read more

31 January, 2011
Rural Telephony: A Socio-Economic Case Study

Rural Telephony: A Socio-Economic Case Study

...and Communication Technology (ICT) has the potential to bring in development to rural areas in the third world. Any deployment of technology however should be... Read more

1 January, 2011
Power Control for Video Transmission Over Rural Wireless Mesh Networks

Power Control for Video Transmission Over Rural Wireless Mesh Networks

...problems pose a major challenge when deploying Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) in rural areas and hinder the sustainability of wireless mesh network in such areas... Read more

1 January, 2011

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