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[ NNSquad ] TV's white spaces connecting rural Africa
TV's white spaces connecting rural Africa
http://j.mp/Xd7Cft (BBC)
For the white spaces project, the company is working with a Kenyan
ISP, Indigo Telecom, and the Kenyan government. The ISP is installing
wireless 'base stations' - or masts - that are solar-powered, to get
round the lack of mains electricity. The base stations act as a link
to the nearest main cable connection to the internet, without the
expense of extending the fibre-optic network. The solar panels will
power the bases stations - and also charge computer equipment The
signal supplied is much more powerful than normal wifi. "What we are
calling TV white space, that is just a different set of frequencies.
It is between 400 megahertz and about 800 megahertz, and those radio
frequencies will just go further," says white spaces expert Professor
Robert Stewart of Strathclyde University.
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--Lauren--
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