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The VillageTelcoSteve Song / David Rowe3 October 2010
an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:KEN:ZAF:ZWE:GBR:MYS:KOR:EGY:TUN
World
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTIC4D/Resources/5870635-1242066347456/IC4D_2009_Overview.pdf
2
Innovation
1
Efficiency
Communication networks are potentially enablers of both efficiency and innovation
50%
Percentage of disposable income spent on mobile services in Africa.
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/11/full-interview-clay-shirky/
...lower the cost of failure
To enable innovation...
When failure is expensive, the lesson learned is to stop wasting money.
YesterdayTodaytrial and error is the new planning
command& controlbuild it and you can comecomplexityuncertaintyunpredictability
1995
2010Walled Gardens
Q. What do these two things have in common?A. You don't have access to the recipe.trial and error is the new planning
quantity is the new quality
United States
Uganda
quantity is the new quality
Eric Schmidit, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
hardware is the new software
hardware is the new software
what's needed is a paradigm shift in how we think about telecom networks
June 2008 The Birth of the Mesh Potato
Mesh Potato
POT-ATA
USD$119 Qty 1
USD$80 Qty 100
USD$60 Target
beats NS2 + ATA
Mesh Potato Design
Low Cost
B.A.T.M.A.N mesh routing
< 400m between nodes, omni antennas
Maximise open hardware and software
OpenWRT
FXS port & interface
Low Power & Africanisation
Custom Wifi/VOIP Hardware
Not a re-flash of existing hardware
Custom, mass market product designed by an open community!
Open Hardware (schematic, CPLD, uC firmware)
Open Software
Very hackable
Development blog: villagetelco.org
Many 1st world applications
Status
It works! First phone call June 2009
Cool developer community
Beta Release Jan 2010
Production October 2010
Several deployments under way in Timor Leste, South Africa.
Some (solvable) problems remaining
Steve Songemail:[email protected]
blog:http://manypossibilities.net
skype:steve_l_song
twitter:stevesong
David Roweemail:[email protected]
blog:http://www.rowetel.com
skype:drowe67villagetelco.org
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