Inverse telecommunications: The future for rural areas in developing countries?

Inverse Infrastructures: Disrupting Networks from Below

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 187-206

  Westerveld, Rudi ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84881853077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781952290.00019     Document Type: Chapter

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