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Wednesday, October 03, 2001
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/oct01/innovation2.asp Calling All Villages By Venkatesh Hariharan For many people in rural areas of the developing world, just making a phone call from home is a distant dream. That's because building conventional phone infrastructure costs around $1,000 per home; to break even, companies would have to charge an amount out of reach for most would-be customers. But a new wireless telecommunications technology called corDECT could change that, potentially bringing millions of people not only phone access but the Internet as well. Developed jointly by the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and Midas Communication Technologies in Chennai, India, the new system is cheap and easy to install, as it replaces expensive cabling with wireless base stations, each serving 30 to 100 subscribers in a neighborhood....
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