Village telcos
In his Many Possibilities blog, Steve Song has been writing about emerging manifestations of village telcos, which he envisions as “easy-to-use connectivity solution that provides extensible local telephony with the possibility of upstream voice and/or data connectivity via POTS, mobile, or other IP services.” A particular initiative described is Dabba Telecom, which uses Open Source software and commodity wireless devices - and hence provides free local calls for those within wireless range and inexpensive voice and data services further afield.
Read Steve Song’s post Theory of Change: The Village Telco.
See also posts on Dabba Telecom and the Dabba Open Source components.
photo credit: Steve Song.
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