Articles tagged with: Rural and Itu

Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services

..olve to be converted into a complement of cabled accesses and WiFi Hot Spots; in rural areas they will be transformed into the principal telecommunications backbone, positioning themselves as the primary networks for telephony and Internet acce more

Telecom Policy Makers Urged to Focus on Rural Connectivity

..Portugal to make affordable access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the rural communities the central focus of their policy-making. Dr. Spio-Garbrah was among a number of heads of international organisations and ministers more

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Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone

..no access to medical imaging. It's hard to take an MRI or CT scanner to a rural community without power." Shrinking the electronics over 25 years Zar said the vision of the new system is to train people in remote areas of the developing more

SMS Tool Underscores Importance of Mobile Technology to Global Development

..n the developing world will continue to centre on mobile applications and rural community realities," said Ken Banks, kiwanja.net Founder. Banks explained, "In this sense the potential for FrontlineForms will be fully realised once it gets into more

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Using Mobile Phones to Boost Health Care Provision

.. ways, such as accelerating the collection and storage of patient data, training rural professionals and personalizing the way patients receive medical treatment." The formation of the Alliance resulted from a July 2008 Rockefeller Foun more

Mobile Communications Is Uniquely Placed to Drive Economic Growth

..nderpinning most of today's 3G mobile networks, making rural areas and other "white spots" economically viable to serve. Moreover, providing mobile broadband coverage is far more cost-effective than installing a new fixed-line broadband connect more

A Transgendered Mobile Phone

..s a facilitating agency to enable people with disabilities and those in rural areas to get jobs. This is the first time transgenders have been included in the plan. About 50 transgenders attended the programme, and were enthusiastic about work more

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Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South

..to make inroads into rural regions of Africa, where the Internet was still non-existent. FrontlineSMS is a free-to-use SMS server program which when installed on a computer allows it to use an attached mobile phone to structure text messages ou more

Nearly Half a Billion Mobile Financial Services Customers in 2013

..ents in less prosperous regions, enabling commerce, extending services to rural regions, and possibly even helping people previously excluded from the financial system to lift themselves out of poverty. The major promoters of this market, accord more

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Justice Department Settles Civil Contempt Claim Against AT&T

..red to divest mobile wireless telecommunications businesses in three rural service areas (RSAs) -- two in Kentucky and one in Oklahoma. Pending divestiture, a management trustee was appointed to oversee the businesses to be divested. Under the more

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