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Low-population density infrastructure
solutions
CTO Forum 2015, Nairobi
Professor Knud Erik Skouby,
Working Group Chair, Wireless
World Research Forum and
Director, Centre for Communication,
Media and Information technologies,
Aalborg University, Denmark
WWRF’s role
• Develop future vision of the Principles of Operation
wireless world
• Global
• Inform and educate on
• Open to all
trends and developments
• Not
• Enable and facilitate the
translation of the vision into • standards body
reality • research funding body
• Bring a wide range of parties • A typical research
together to identify and conference
overcome significant • Based on membership
roadblocks to the vision • All can attend meetings and
make contributions
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Membership
70 member organisations
Manufacturer
Current Working Groups
Network operator
Industry
organization Africa
Academic institute A User Needs &
Requirements in a Secure B Services, devices and
Research Environment in different Socio-
organization Americas service architectures
Government
Economic settings
agency
Individual Asia
C Communication D Radio Communication
architectures and technologies Technologies
Europe
WWRF outputs
• WWRF Outlook – published version of White Paper
• WWRF Library – proceedings of each meeting
• WWRF – Wiley and River book series
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WWRF -
2020 Vision in a nutshell
• 7 trillion wireless devices
• serving 7 billion people
• All people will be served with wireless devices
• Affordable to purchase and operate
• Calm computing: technology invisible to users
• Machine to machine communications
• Sensors and tags: e.g. in transport and weather
systems, infrastructure, to provide ambient intelligence
and context sensitivity
• All devices are part of the (mobile) internet
Wireless – The Way to Future
Some facts behind the Vision
• It is estimated that mobile industry contribute over
6% of Africa’s GDP
• The industry has created 3.3 billion Jobs in the region
and contributes US$ 21billion to Africa
The Rural Communication Challenge
access to cheap and reliable communication is a self-
enforcing enabler for creation of wealth and higher
standards of living
The farmer can get higher prices for his crops
The local doctor can access lifesaving knowledge
and provide better information for patients Majority of this large
Education becomes easily accessible population group is
living in rural areas in
Africa, India, China
and South America
More than 1,5 billion of
the world’s population
is still without access to
the most basic modern
communication
Existing Telco operators are
facing steep challenges when
addressing the rural area
installations:
Lack of power supply
High cost deployments
Lack of a clear business case
Idea: Connecting the last miles to the HIghway
Teamed up with Blue Town
(Danish Start-up):
A WLL low-cost, low-energy solar panel
powered
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Examplary Business Model • India has 37,000 villages without connectivity. • Totally unconnected villages generally be among the smaller ones. A fair average size will be 750 persons. • An average family has 6.5 members. • These villages are generally among the poorest - the average income per person is between 1 and 2 USD: 1.5 USD. • Poor people are prepared to pay a high share of their income on telecommunications: 5-10% ~ approx 10 USD/y • ‘Mature’ situation: 1 terminal per household 9
Basic model economics
• A terminal will costs app. 10$. It will be used for 5 years – with an average annual cost of
2 $ (external investment)
• 15% will have 1 low entry mobile.
• Every family in the village has, in average, 6 US$ for daily living.
• A family is on average willing to spend 5-15% of their daily earnings for communication.
We use 10%.
• Mobile operators sales cost 10% of revenue.
• Price per base stations of USD 16,544
• 2 base stations per village with a 5 year depreciation period.
• The network (WLL) cost per year per user is US$ 10 + up-grade every 5th year. (US$ 14
per user).
• Maintenance on telecom equipment is 20% per year.
• Satellite; fiber backbone connection costs per year is US$ 2,500 for each connection.
(Microwave/ cable solution costs are very dependent on local conditions)
•
10Economic results
• Based on the assumptions above we estimate the
revenue from one rural village to be US$ 25,269 a year
• The business value is most sensitive to:
– The percentage of the daily income that citizens are willing to
spend on communication.
– The number of mobiles per family as we assume the total
mobile consumption will increase with the numbers of
mobiles
– Looked Sustainable!
• Blue Town decided to realize the ideas
11BlueTown End-to-End Solution
MESH OF VILLAGES:
• Connecting to
existing telco data
tower and center
• Access to VoiP,
internet and content
• The Micro Wave Link
use case enables the
BlueTown solution to
operate up to 25 km
from an existing
backend
• The Micro Wave Link
solution can be
repeated numerous
times hence
extending the reach
to numerous villagesThree connection possibilities
CONNECT TO THE FOLLOWING:
• Satellite
• Micro Wave Link
• Direct Attached Fiber
Backbone
The core system is the same in each use case and
the three connection types can easily be
combinedA Rural Digital Eco System Outlined by
Implementations
Pilot in Kerege, Tanzania,
being extended to further locations
Pilot being established in India
in collaboration with
• BSNL
”I can use the internet to learn new ways to be an
• Railtel
”As agriculture is the most important
effective teacher, and motivate the kids to learn more,
activity in the village, the quality of
in a school with limited resources”.
services from my office, is key to
Remigi Reginald Mrema, Teacher
increase the socio-economic status of
the people living in the village.”
Rehema Hassan Suleiman, Agricultural
Officer
A successful university/ industry
collaboration
promoted by WWRF
”We use the internet a lot to communicate with
specialists, get valuable information about
diseases, and how we can prevent disease
development to the citizens”.
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