Saturday August 27, 2011
Pop-Up Phones:
The Low-Cost Low-Power Mobile Network
A US professor has developed a low-cost mobile cell that can be powered with solar energy.
The cells could be easily deployed in remote areas with no communications infrastructure.
From Shareable:
Potential uses are numerous: individuals in rural areas with limited Internet access would benefit from these pop-up cellular data connections, and it could serve as a game-changer for areas of the developing world with limited network access. Moreover, tech like this could play a role in the autonomous Next Net that Douglas Rushkoff envisions. While the Village Base Station uses existing cellular network infrastructure, what if devices like this were used to connect to an autonomous Internet through a collectively-owned satellite?
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