http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/#comment-95220 Jeanne-Elise M. Heydecker Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=133891#comment-95220 There are no cables whatsoever. (I work for VNL.) The sites connect to your existing mobile networks. We place a Base Station Controller in the last node of your network, and build from there. They are designed to extend existing networks into areas that were considered undesirable – too costly to deploy and operate at the ARPUs that are available. Interestingly, once the systems arrive, the ARPU increases as well – we’ve seen some dramatic increases in income levels once connected.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/#comment-95221 Jeanne-Elise M. Heydecker Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=133891#comment-95221 There are no cables whatsoever. (I work for VNL.) The sites connect to your existing mobile networks. We place a Base Station Controller in the last node of your network, and build from there. They are designed to extend existing networks into areas that were considered undesirable – too costly to deploy and operate at the ARPUs that are available. Interestingly, once the systems arrive, the ARPU increases as well – we’ve seen some dramatic increases in income levels once connected.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/#comment-95004 Simon Broenner Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=133891#comment-95004 So what does this thing connect to? Satellites? Radio link? If you’re running a cable for data anyway, you might as well do away with the solar cells and add power that way…?

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/#comment-95005 Simon Broenner Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=133891#comment-95005 So what does this thing connect to? Satellites? Radio link? If you’re running a cable for data anyway, you might as well do away with the solar cells and add power that way…?

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/worldgsm-at-mwc-2011-mobile-data-for-impoverished-isolated-villages-15133891/#comment-95006 Simon Broenner Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=133891#comment-95006 So what does this thing connect to? Satellites? Radio link? If you’re running a cable for data anyway, you might as well do away with the solar cells and add power that way…?

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