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My talk about telecoms in Africa and the motivation behind Village Telco. The streaming video of the talk can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldd7SIiuJGg
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LIFT12 Conference - Village Telco
- Building a Robust Telecommunications Ecology with Village Telco Steve Song LIFT12
- South Africa Vodacom Wireless Coverage Map
- Zimbabwe Econet Wireless Coverage Map
- When access is expensive, it’s hard to learn to play the game
- Resilience
- Telephone Internet Infrastructure Infrastructure
- Super Superfluous Computing Computing
- United States Ethiopia Uganda
- The Unlicensed Ecosystem
- Growth of WiFi Source: Daily Wireless – www.dailywireless.org/2012/02/08/hotspot-2-0/
- Hacking Hardware
- A Simple Idea Analogue Wireless Telephony Access Adaptor Point for ordinary phones
- Beta Concept Production Prototype
- Not Your Average Wifi Device Outdoor Ready Weatherised UV Protected Tough Sealed Unit Capable of surviving line spike, brownouts, power surges. Flexible Accepts 9-40V Can be powered via phone or data line
- Mesh Potato Installation
- ISP
- East Timor Lemi Soares Dili Timor Leste
- Wayne Abroue Griqua Community South Africa
- Rael Lissoos Johannesburg South Africa
- Plans for 2012 Mesh Potato 2.0 Open Source Open Hardware Faster Cheaper
- A Parting Thought...
- But only if we act together…
- How to get involved If you would like to support a Village Telco directly, please get in touch: steve@villagetelco.org twitter @stevesong If you’re a developer, engineer, or entrepreneur, or just interested, please join us in the Village Telco development community at http://bit.ly/vt-community http://villagetelco.org twitter @villagetelco
- Image Credits Google Server by NiallKennedy Rael Lissoos by edyson http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/102932643 http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/2340944921/ BY NC BY NC IBM Blue Gene by Argonne National Library Antenna Setup by Razvan Caliman http://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/3334947628 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsk/2760922792/# BY SA BY Telephone Box by Vissago Fibre Optic Sensors by PNNL http://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/4249091962/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnnl/3638446385/ BY NC BY NC SA Telephone Line by fernando http://www.flickr.com/photos/ernando/522949553/ BY SA Scaffolding in Addis Ababa Courtesy Owen Barder http://www.owen.org Blackjack by Shannon K http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonmary/3040998286/ BY SA ND Reserved Parking Licensed from iStockPhoto http://www.istockphoto.com Weakest Link http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayvando707/6843918403/ All Rights Reserved - Re-used by permission Other photos CC BY SA Village Telco
Editor's Notes
- Mobile CoverageWhile covering a large percentage of the population, it doesn’t cover that much of the country.
- Lack of Access to Radio Spectrum Constrains Competition and GrowthMost mobile spectrum is controlled by a few incumbents who have a great deal of influence over the market
- The Birth of the Mesh PotatoWorkshop in South Africa to ask the question, how to scale WiFi-based voice and data services. Experimented with various options, technologies.
- Genesis of the Mesh PotatoMy poor artist’s conceptPrototype literally hacked into an existing Wireless AP200 beta unitsFinal production version.
- Mesh Potato FeaturesNot your average access point.UV protected plastic. Single body molding.Accepts anything from 9-40VDC, so can be powered easily by alternative sources… e.g. car battery, solar.Toughened for rural Africa. Capable of withstanding line spikes, power surges, brownouts, anything short of a direct lightning strike.Accepts power via power points, Power Over Telephone Line, Power Over EthernetBased one Open Source technologies. OpenWRT, BATMAN, Asterisk, etc
- Wayne AbroueEastern Cape South AfricaGriqua people’s enclaveInitially built a 40km WiFi linkSuccumbed to demand from friends and familyNow cnnects advice centres, creches, welfare kitchensStarted as a free service, now a non-profit organisationMixture of technologies
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