OT Thierry: wifi for developing countries (was Re: My opinion)

[JMZ]

Off topic question for Thierry:

Is there 3G or better in Madagascar cities?  Would it be possible to set 
up 3G towers in the rural areas, which would connect to wifi hot spots 
in the center of villages?  PCI wireless cards are cheap.  This would be 
a way around wiring rural areas with cable or DSL.  The throughput isn't 
going to be great, but at least the repository servers _might_ be 
accessible.  This could be a great project for a developed world charity.

I remember a segment on BBC World Service about portable wifi hot spots 
for central Africa.  The inventors were able to get a few km radius with 
the devices.

Jordan


On 09/08/2016 11:10 AM, Thierry Andriamirado wrote:
>
> Le 8 septembre 2016 01:35:05 UTC+03:00, John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> There are countless very old computers running Ubuntu, in Developing
>>> Countries.
>>>
>> It's not my fault nobody counted.
> It's nobody's fault: many of those Ubuntu boxes are used in villages in the bush, and are not even connected to the Internet. Updated from time to time via CD-Rom..
>