Bridge the Digital Divide
The Challenge:
Technology requires investment. Affluent and middle-class communities across nations are already familiar with technology and the social and educational benefits that technology delivers. A growing concern among politicians and concerned citizens alike is: what about the rest of the world? Inner-city poverty, rural isolation, developing countries without telecommunications infrastructure – communities with these challenges lack the advantage of today’s “digital world” and instead are separated by a chasm known as the “digital divide”.
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The Solution:
Installing wired networks to homes, schools, hospitals and community centers around the world isn’t feasible. Wireless metro area networks funded by governments or charities provide a next-generation solution to a problem that fiber optic networking can’t solve. Installing broadband wireless networks to community centers finally breaks the cost barrier. Wireless pointto- point and multipoint networks eliminate trenching fiber, eliminate monthly recurring leased line costs and cross previously insurmountable geographical barriers. Local governments can bridge the digital divide through metro-area connections to social centers, medical clinics and many other non-profit organizations.