DocumentCode
710422
Title
Connecting africa using the TV white spaces: from research to real world deployments
Author
Roberts, Sidney ; Garnett, Paul ; Chandra, Ranveer
Author_Institution
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA
fYear
2015
fDate
22-24 April 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
More than 4 billion people are not connected to the Internet. This is either because there is no infrastructure or because Internet access is not affordable. This digital divide is extreme in Africa. At Microsoft, we have been investigating various technologies to bridge this divide. In this paper we describe our research around the TV White Spaces, and how we have leveraged it, and worked with our partners to connect communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Keywords
Internet; television; Africa; Internet; Microsoft; TV white spaces; Antennas; Base stations; Broadband communication; Databases; IEEE 802.11 Standards; TV; White spaces; Network Deployments; White Spaces;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2015 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LANMAN.2015.7114729
Filename
7114729
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