The Availability Of Telecommunication Connectivity Solution

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

Of late, another important communication channel in rural areas in recent years is the Very High Frequency (VHF) radio telephone service (Liew, 2004).

Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs) are also used to link to satellites to provide Internet access services in rural community, public telephone service and fax lines to certain rural areas.

Shyam Networks (n.d.) has written and demonstrated Just like Urban areas the potential for broadband growth in rural community areas is immense. However providing affordable connectivity to people in rural areas is a challenge. Rural populations live beyond the reach of traditional communication infrastructure. In addition average revenue per user (ARPU) is low, the topography is challenging, and basic infrastructure like electricity and roads are in short supply skilled technical recourses are very hard to come by. While developing rural areas is a priority and telecom is a catalyst, unless there is a highly cost effective and viable solution to deliver services nothing can be achieved.

With the provision of Internet access via satellite links in rural areas, there are two alternatives of networking in rural areas, namely wired networking and wireless networking. However, wireless networking provides various advantages in rural conditions. First, in rural areas with scattered populations, using wireless networks can save the high cabling cost of the wired alternative. Secondly, wireless networks can ease installation in situations that are difficult-to-wire, for example when rivers, roads or other obstacles separate the facilities to be connected. Besides that, it can also reduce installation time, where installation of cabling is often a time-consuming task. Moreover, wireless networks also offer the benefit of increased reliability, where a frequently occurring problem faced by wired networks is the system downtime due to cable (Khalid, 2004).

Background

Fixed line penetration around rural community areas are known to experience a very little growth in the last decade and has even suffered continuous declined in the recent years of mobile telephone expansion. The fixed line infrastructure is concentrated mostly in more populated areas (Urban areas) leaving the majority of rural areas totally unconnected. The ITU estimates that in 2007 less than 3 percent of all subs – Saharan African villages had access to a fixed – line connectivity services and less than 0.5 percent of sub- Saharan African village had access to a public internet infrastructure.

With the implementation of wireless technology, remote villages and their inhabitants would be able to benefit from many more opportunities in the areas of learning and economic development.

Via the wireless signal, high-speed Internet may be able to match or equalize some of the existing differences between the opportunities for those in rural areas as compared to the opportunities for those in urban areas. For example, things that one used to have to drive over 150 miles to buy can now be delivered to their front door in a matter of just days.

Contrariwise, a rural business owner in our days has the chance to promote and sell his/her products online, thus opening a new marketplace for their merchandise. This interconnectivity of people in rural areas is important and brings more value in sustaining the small towns and smaller cities that make up rural locations; and with more rapidly, reasonable connections, citizens in rural areas will have this opportunity to connect and interact with millions around the world.

The Rural improvement and technological distribution in rural areas community has lately become a priority, but more so for rural areas in developing countries. The disparities among urban and rural areas across the world have been examined before but not within the context of new technology, particularly the connectivity solutions (Lawyer, 2004).

Purpose of the Research

The purpose of this study seeks to investigate the Connectivity solution in rural community areas and other telecommunication infrastructure facilities and the impacts that can cause toward the rural community members lives.

The theme will be pointed down by some of the following sub objectives:

The connectivity challenges experienced by people in rural community areas

A New Model for Rural connectivity Solution

Benefits of Wireless Technology at remote village

Lack of Infrastructures facilities and solutions

Importance of Rural Communication Networks

Type of connectivity solution and their impact

Research Question

Based on the current discussion Topic, this research project will try to acknowledge the following questions:

What are some of the current wired and wireless options that can be considered in order to improve domestic backbone and "last mile" connectivity?

Is the technical convergence increasingly playing a key role in competition and regulation of the telecommunications sector?

Is a lack of communication infrastructure in rural community area a cause of poor connectivity signal?

Why might states want to consider developing social service policies that target rural areas?

Based on the connectivity solution what are the type of connectivity that can be implemented or being suitable for people living in rural areas communities?

Hypothesis

I have strong convictions that connectivity solution coverage at rural community areas can be improved by investing or building more infrastructure facilities at remote village so that people within those areas are treated equally as the one at urban areas.

Connectivity can also be used for educational purposes in a society not only in workplaces but also in home and business environment. All these would be possible but the poor infrastructure facilities and lack of planning are some of the challenges that need to be addressed carefully.

Scope of the Study

In this project research, the attention will be on the connectivity solution and ways and option to overcome the connectivity challenges experienced by people at rural community areas.

A prominence will also be addressed mainly on the people within those community rural areas and affected with the challenges of connectivity and shared and acknowledge their views.

Outline Methodology

This research project will make use of both Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in order to collect information about Connectivity solution from different resources and background such as: previous project research, articles, news papers, books and other reports related to the current topic above.

Interview will be conducted to analyse the challenges people goes through in order to acquire basic connectivity.

A questionnaire will be distributed among the community members to gather information that address their challenges and ways moving forward.

Problem statement

We briefly use this section to outline some of the application specific challenges and describe our initial design ideas towards addressing some of these challenges.

QoS Challenges: Many important applications in rural developing world such as telephony, telemedicine and distance learning would require QoS guarantees from the underlying network layer.

The underlying MAC layer does provide a certain level of error-recovery; this is typically insufficient to achieve end-to-end QoS. In addition, the net available bandwidth on each link varies as a function of time due to the TDMA protocol used at the MAC layer. Providing QoS guarantee sin a network where every link is lossy as well as has time-varying bandwidth is known to be a hard problem; traditional QoS mechanisms have been designed for networks with fixed capacities.

To solve this problem, the leverage ideas from prior work on QoS will be considered carefully, an overlay network based architecture that uses the basic concept of a controlled loss virtual links (CLVL) to provide statistical end-to-end QoS over bandwidth-varying lossy network links.

Overview of the research

This research basically provides a general overview into Connectivity solution – at rural community areas in particular. How the lack of proper connectivity infrastructure has been affecting the lives of the rural community population telecommunication wise.

The research goes deep into exploring ways and option to overtake the current connectivity challenges at rural community so that it can be integrated into their community more infrastructure facilities and utilise them as learning tools to better their lives from the individual point of view as well as their business perspective.

Value of the project

Things such as: Connectivity, Telecommunication facilities infrastructure and signal coverage are things that form part of our everyday lives. The phrase Connectivity it is also known as a degree to which networks: streets, neighbourhoods, walking routes, link services infrastructures facilities and also interconnect them.

This project will look at different options available in order to take them into consideration so that connectivity challenges are alleviated and well established.

Connectivity facilities are known to be an important step toward liking people at the rural communities to the rest of the world via services such: internet, mobile signal coverage and voice calls.