Taking BoP Strategies to Scale: Connecting Rural Communities
By Al Hammond, NextBillion.net, May 7, 2008
A rural connectivity pilot project in Son Tay Commune, Quang Ngai Province of Vietnam. Suggests that providing rural coverage with a wireless network would be dramatically less costly to the telco. Plus the telco can sell Internet access to cybercafés, schools, government offices, and small businesses, over the same network. From the perspective of the users, it also looks like a good deal, because local calls would be free.
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