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Our own satellite link?
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Our own satellite link?
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Despairing of the high costs and poor quality of phone services and access to the Internet, Paul Soddo of the Mbale Information Technology Center (PO Box 1655, Mbale, Uganda) complains of 'the lack of local exchange centres and Internet service providers which would help to send emails as cheaply and fast as possible. You find yourself paying for long distance calls instead of local calls. This is uneconomical and unfair to the people of Mbale, over 200 km from the capital city.' He further asks if 'TV satellite dishes can be adapted to two-way communication for the World Wide Web, email and fax?'. No, Mr Soddo, not easily, not with the large satellite dishes. But if you can mobilise about US $ 2000, you could have your own earth station to link up with the NGO Vitasat service for email, or to the new global satellite services to whom we have passed your letter. It s probably simpler and cheaper, though, believe it or not, to get the phone companies to stop charging long-distance rates. We ll discuss this in Spore early in 2000. Despairing of the high costs and poor quality of phone services and access to the Internet, Paul Soddo of the Mbale Information Technology Center (PO Box 1655, Mbale, Uganda) complains of 'the lack of local exchange centres and Internet service... |
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1999
2014-10-16T09:07:28Z 2014-10-16T09:07:28Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1999. Our own satellite link?. Spore 84. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46608 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99586 |
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en
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Spore
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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