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Introduction
1. The rural opportunity for telecom companies in Africa - Page 1
1.1. Telecom companies can provide rural Internet with a very low investment - Page 3
1.2. How to benefit from the rural telecom
opportunity - Page 3
1.3. Areas of the world with the biggest demand for low cost rural Internet - Page 5
1.4. Expectation of Internet growth in Africa - Page 7
1.5. The bandwidth bottleneck sets a limit to the growth of Internet access - Page 8
2. The technology that delivers low cost Internet to rural communities - Page 13
2.1. Adapting satellite Internet to provide a service for rural communities - Page 15
2.2. Satellite Internet provides the connection for remote rural communities - Page 16
2.3. Functionality of the rural community Internet service - Page 20
2.4. Manage Internet access and billing for the rural community Internet service - Page 21
2.5. Network infrastructure for a community Internet service - Page 26
2.6. Calculate how many people should connect to
the Internet service - Page 29
2.7. Prevent potential abuse of the Internet service - Page 30
2.8. Comparing performance of WiFi vs. mobile phone technology - Page 31
3. Community network infrastructure - Page 33
3.1. Communication distances for outdoor WiFi devices in a community - Page 35
3.2. The central WiFi Internet installation for a rural community - Page 39
3.3. Connecting homes to the central antenna with fixed wireless access (FWA) - Page 41
3.4. Adding adjacent communities to the central location - Page 44
3.5. The network infrastructure for a larger community WiFi service - Page 47
3.6. Expanding the Starlink satellite Internet service for larger communities - Page 49
3.7. The customers procedure to connect a mobile device to the Internet service - Page 50
4. Methods of charging for the WiFi service - Page 55
4.1. Charging for the Internet service: comparing pay-on-demand to subscription - Page 57
4.2. Pay-on-demand methods to charge for Internet with access code vouchers - Page 60
4.3. Pay-on-demand method to charge for Internet with Mobile Money (MoMo) - Page 65
4.4. A subscription service for Guest Internet community WiFi systems - Page 70
5. Large scale projects - Page 75
5.1. A large-scale Guest Internet project example - Page 76
5.2. Residents view of the Internet service - Page 78
6. Challenges to deploy a rural community Internetservice - Page 81
6.1. Challenges facing mobile network operators in Africa - Page 83
6.2. Next steps to develop Internet services for rural communities - Page 86
6.3. Guest Internet can help with network infrastructure projects for rural communities - Page 86
GLOSSARY - Page 89
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