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Re: Rural Wireless ISP

  • From: Mathew Lodge
  • Date: Tue Apr 16 16:13:29 2002


Agile communications did a rural Australian VoIP and data service. Details are at:

http://www.agile.com.au/cnAbout.shtml

Cheers,

Mathew



At 03:24 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm hoping to learn some pointers and get advice for a colleague hoping to
> establishing a rural wireless-ISP in South America. It's the typical story
> as in most other South American countries the capital city is served to
> some extent by the monopoly provider and the rural towns and villages are
> very poorly served.  The intention is to establish Internet Kiosks where
> the locals can access the internet and make VOIP calls even transact some
> ecommerce.
>
> In my limited search I did come across a wireless system by Analog Devices
> know as "corDECT", that is doing a good job over in India.  But not to
> constrain the options, we're hoping to learn about any solution that is
> suitable for this situation.
>
Any suggestions on:
>       b) Necessary hardware & software components
>       c) Installation (the easier the better) & maintenance requirements
> (lower is better)
>       d) how to get the traffic generated out at lowest cost
>
> thanks,
>
> -guy ram
>
> Email: [email protected]
>
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