Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa

Guillaume Filion writes "LinuxJournal has a fascinating article about Radio Email in West Africa over HF links. 'Deep inside the warm green interior of Guinea, centered in the frontal lobe of West Africa, field personnel in the widely scattered village-towns of Dabola, Kissidougou and Nzerekore now enjoy access to regular internet e-mail, directly from their desktops. Here we have bridged the digital divide, and there isn't a telephone line or satellite dish in sight.' Talk about Wireless Fidelity!"

Comments

Yes, But....

[LordYUK]

to use this service, you need to send them 2500 which will be reimbursed when they transfer the rest of the money out of their respective repressed country!

Its a step up

[john82]

Before this, they were using carrier pigeon to transmit email. Just establishing a connnection to the mail server was a bitch.

Yes, the previous method had many flaws.

[Prince_Ali]

Tiny bandwidth, monstrous lag, and packet loss caused by German machine guns.

Nigeria has plenty of money floating around

[codepunk]

I would assume that nigeria could easily fund getting the whole country high speed bandwidth. I cannot begin to tell you how many emails I get a day from nigerians that wish to send me millions of dollars just for doing a simple bank transfer.