If you are interested about information how you can build and maintain wireless networks in developing countries, you may be interested in the book
Wireless Networking in the Developing World. This book explains this on about 425 pages.
The second edition has just been released under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license with versions in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and soon Portuguese.
There is also a short article explaining why such networks can be usefull.
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March 5, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thanks for the information.I will surely put this book good use
March 17, 2008 at 12:26 pm
The boook is good for us indeed I got one from a short course organised by the University of Malawi-Polytechnic,headed by Dr Gombachika.
Notify me any new developments on this please.