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By some measures, access to electronic media in rural areas of the United States is on par with the rest of the nation. Statewide data for Montana regarding high-speed Internet penetration is comparable to the national penetration level, and Montana's citizens have other means of information access including wireless hot spots, schools and libraries equipped with Internet and municipal websites. However,...
In the new rural construction, to enhance the work of the continuing education of teachers in the rural areas is the key of promoting rural education reform and process. It is also the prerequisites of enhancing the quality of rural education. With the implementation of the modern distance education in the rural primary and secondary schools (referred as rural distance education), the work of continuing...
The adoption of community wireless has become a growing trend in both metropolitan and rural areas around the world. However, understanding the usage motivations and the unintended effects that those technologies have on communities is limited particularly for rural users. The purpose of this study is to explore the benefits and usage of an asynchronous wireless Internet system in a rural village...
Network deployment in rural areas of developing nations is a challenge to social conscience and technical capability and affordability. Because most rural areas have no copper telecommunication legacy, they can leapfrog to using wireless technologies. These technologies allow "bypassing stages in capacity building or investment through which countries were previously required to pass during the...
Inadequate Internet access is widening the digital divide between town and countryside, degrading both social communication and business advancements in rural areas. Wireless mesh networking can provide an excellent framework for delivering broadband services to such areas. With this in mind, Lancaster University deployed a WMN in the rural village of Wray over a three-year period, providing the community...
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