The increased bandwidth fallacy: Performance and usage in rural Zambia

Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, ACM DEV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zheleva, Mariya ^a   Schmitt, Paul ^a   Vigil, Morgan ^a   Belding, Elizabeth ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth increase; Digital divide; Rural area networks; Satellite; Wireless terrestrial

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INTERNET; RURAL AREAS; SATELLITE LINKS; SATELLITES; VIDEO STREAMING;

BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS; DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES; DIGITAL DIVIDE; INTERNET ACCESS; LONG-DISTANCE WIRELESS; RURAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; USER EXPERIENCE;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84893424742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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