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Mobile telephony brings economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more a... more Mobile telephony brings economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more affordable, the ownership has reached staggering numbers, even in the most remote areas of the world. However, network coverage is often lacking in low population densities and low income rural areas of the developing world, where big telecoms often defer from deploying expensive infrastructure. To solve this coverage gap, we propose VillageCell, a low-cost alternative to high-end cell phone networks. VillageCell relies on software defined radios and opensource solutions to provide free local and cheap long-distance communication for remote regions. Our architecture is simple and easy to deploy, yet robust and requires no modification to GSM handsets. The performance evaluation, done by measuring the call quality metrics and the system capacity under a realistic rural-area network load, shows that VillageCell is indeed an attractive solution for rural area voice connectivity.
Our paper investigates the change in income distribution, pre-and post-banking crises in Argentin... more Our paper investigates the change in income distribution, pre-and post-banking crises in Argentina and in Brazil. We find that in the case of Argentina, there is a strong evidence borne out by three different measures of income inequality that the redistribution of the income post crises are skewed in favor of the rich. For the case of Brazil, we are unable to resolve the question either way due to insufficient information in the dataset.
Mobile telephony brings clear economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become ... more Mobile telephony brings clear economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more affordable, ownership has reached staggering numbers, even in the most remote areas of the world. However, network coverage is often lacking in low population densities and low income rural areas of the developing world, where big telecoms often defer from deploying expensive infrastructure. To solve this coverage gap, we propose VillageCell, a low-cost alternative to high-end cell phone networks. VillageCell relies on software defined radios and open-source solutions to provide free local and cheap long-distance communication for remote regions. Our architecture is simple and easy to deploy, yet robust and requires no modification to GSM handsets. Through measuring the call quality metrics and the system capacity under a realistic rural-area network load, we show that Vil-lageCell is indeed an attractive solution for rural area voice connectivity.
Management and Labour Studies, Jan 1, 2005
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Mobile telephony brings economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more a... more Mobile telephony brings economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more affordable, the ownership has reached staggering numbers, even in the most remote areas of the world. However, network coverage is often lacking in low population densities and low income rural areas of the developing world, where big telecoms often defer from deploying expensive infrastructure. To solve this coverage gap, we propose VillageCell, a low-cost alternative to high-end cell phone networks. VillageCell relies on software defined radios and opensource solutions to provide free local and cheap long-distance communication for remote regions. Our architecture is simple and easy to deploy, yet robust and requires no modification to GSM handsets. The performance evaluation, done by measuring the call quality metrics and the system capacity under a realistic rural-area network load, shows that VillageCell is indeed an attractive solution for rural area voice connectivity.
Our paper investigates the change in income distribution, pre-and post-banking crises in Argentin... more Our paper investigates the change in income distribution, pre-and post-banking crises in Argentina and in Brazil. We find that in the case of Argentina, there is a strong evidence borne out by three different measures of income inequality that the redistribution of the income post crises are skewed in favor of the rich. For the case of Brazil, we are unable to resolve the question either way due to insufficient information in the dataset.
Mobile telephony brings clear economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become ... more Mobile telephony brings clear economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have become more affordable, ownership has reached staggering numbers, even in the most remote areas of the world. However, network coverage is often lacking in low population densities and low income rural areas of the developing world, where big telecoms often defer from deploying expensive infrastructure. To solve this coverage gap, we propose VillageCell, a low-cost alternative to high-end cell phone networks. VillageCell relies on software defined radios and open-source solutions to provide free local and cheap long-distance communication for remote regions. Our architecture is simple and easy to deploy, yet robust and requires no modification to GSM handsets. Through measuring the call quality metrics and the system capacity under a realistic rural-area network load, we show that Vil-lageCell is indeed an attractive solution for rural area voice connectivity.
Management and Labour Studies, Jan 1, 2005