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VillageTelco Project
      Don Onwunumah
Who am I?


• Software Engineer

• Founder/CTO WirelessDialog
What is Village Telco?
• Low cost community
  telephone network

• Sets up in minutes

• No mobile phone
  towers or wired lines

• Wireless mesh
  technology
Why?
• Remote Rural Regions

• Ignored by Telcos

• Mobile phone use very
  expensive

• 50 % of income on mobile
  services

• Not only the developing world -
  Community wireless and
  telephony not owned by
  Government
Features
• Emergent Telephone Networks

• Locally Owned

• No Spectrum License

• Freedom to Innovate

• Rapid Deployment
Truly Open Source
Example Deployment
        “Mcdonalds” Model
• Franchise to low income local
  entrepreneur

• Provide equipment,
  expertise, training and
  support

• Tele kiosks in villages Internet
  access, telephony,
  photographs, printing, web
  design etc

• Profits go back into getting
  more equipment
Contact

• www.villagetelco.org               • www.wireless-dialog.com

• groups.google.com/group/village-   • info@wireless-dialog.com
  telco-dev/

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VillageTelco FOSDEM WirelessDialog

  • 1. VillageTelco Project Don Onwunumah
  • 2. Who am I? • Software Engineer • Founder/CTO WirelessDialog
  • 3. What is Village Telco? • Low cost community telephone network • Sets up in minutes • No mobile phone towers or wired lines • Wireless mesh technology
  • 4. Why? • Remote Rural Regions • Ignored by Telcos • Mobile phone use very expensive • 50 % of income on mobile services • Not only the developing world - Community wireless and telephony not owned by Government
  • 5. Features • Emergent Telephone Networks • Locally Owned • No Spectrum License • Freedom to Innovate • Rapid Deployment
  • 7.
  • 8. Example Deployment “Mcdonalds” Model • Franchise to low income local entrepreneur • Provide equipment, expertise, training and support • Tele kiosks in villages Internet access, telephony, photographs, printing, web design etc • Profits go back into getting more equipment
  • 9. Contact • www.villagetelco.org • www.wireless-dialog.com • groups.google.com/group/village- • info@wireless-dialog.com telco-dev/