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Hey James
This must be from the story below about WiFi in a village in 2005
I wondered what happened to that village?
How are those hills?
http://www.inveneo.org/?q=uganda
Uganda deployment goes live June 8th, 2005
At 11:10am PST on June 8th, with a VoIP phone call from the Community
Knowledge Center to the village of Nyamiryango, Inveneo's first solar
and pedal powered communications system went live in the Bukuuku sub-
county, Kabarole district of Western Uganda. This successful
deployment was completed in partnership with ActionAid, and enables
villagers to use a phone, computer and the Internet for the first
time ever, empowering them to use communications and technology to
improve their lives dramatically.
Inveneo has setup five systems. One in the Community Knowledge Center
acts as the hub station, connecting the stations in the villages to
the local phone network (since no landlines are available in this
part of Uganda, a interconnect to the GSM network was established
using GSM terminal units) and the Internet (utilizing the existing
Internet connection at the Community Knowledge Center). All the
remaining four communications stations are installed in villages with
no access to electricity or phone lines. All stations are connected
with 802.11 wireless network links ranging from 2 to 6 km.
distance....................
On Aug 14, 2006, at 3:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have an asterix deployment in a village called Bukuku in Fort
Portal
that enables villagers to make free VOIP calls to each other through a
WiFi system and they are also able to surf the net from some
designated
huts that use solar powered PCs.
Wire
Cool. I'm just wondering when Asterix and the whole VOIP buzz will
hit
Kampala. Though initial setup is abit taxing, on the whole Asterix
is a
brilliant entry point into the world of VOIP and IP Telephony. And
yes
"FREE" calls. There is a guy who allows you t call India and the
US at 300
/=, in Wandegs.
FRANCIS.
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Begumisa Gerald M writes:
Hi,
Hope this is not too off topic! [Justification: Linux is the primary
development platform for Asterisk :-)]
Otherwise, I think this is quite interesting given Digium's
[apparently]
fast growth rate (judging purely from the rate of release of
hardware /
software products and increasingly widespread adoption of Asterisk).
I think it would be really cool to see where these funds take
them next!
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HUNTSVILLE, AL and BOSTON, MA . (August 9, 2006) . Digium Inc., the
original creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source
telephony, today
announced it has closed its first round of venture capital funding,
receiving $13.8 million from Matrix Partners, a leading U.S.-based
venture
capital firm. The funding will help fuel the continued growth of
Digium
and Asterisk, especially in launching new offerings for the
enterprise
communications market, ranging from small to large businesses...
http://www.digium.com/en/mediacenter/news/viewpress/matrix
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Cheers,
Gerald.
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