Tekniam Founder Andrew Heaton in
Africa, bringing broadband
Internet to developing nations at a fraction of the cost
LENEXA,
Kan., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --
Connecting rural parts of the world to broadband Internet is a
decade long challenge that NGO's, the World Bank, and
governments worldwide are spending billions of dollars on working
to solve. Tekniam saw this issue and developed a more adaptable and
affordable connectivity solution, the Remote Universal
Communication System, or the RUCS.
Low power draw and versatile power options
makes the RUCS ideal for off-grid applications, and doesn't require
a gasoline generator and trailer like many other solutions.
The RUCS is a portable and compact Internet solution that
provides low-cost broadband Internet for developing countries
struggling to bridge the digital divide. With configurations to fit
an array of needs, this breakthrough technology delivers broadband
signal to 250 users within a 1000 ft radius with one unit.
Additional units allow the broadband signal to be relayed up to 3
miles between units, to cover a total distance of up to 30
miles.
A low power draw and versatile power options makes the RUCS
ideal for off-grid applications, and doesn't require a gasoline
generator and trailor to transport like many other solutions.
Tekniam's Founder Andrew Heaton
recently spent two months in an East African nation bringing high
speed broadband Internet to this developing country. The county has
a total population of about 13 million people, with a couple
million people in the capital city that are connected with cell
towers and fiber.
What's hard to imagine is their entire nation shares only 10
gigabits of data!
To put that into perspective, you can get residential plans for
a home in America with 10 gigabits of data. So, what you are able
to buy for a household in a major market in America for maybe
$150 a month they have for 13 million
people. Their entire country!
They are unable to do things that are taken for granted
elsewhere like working remotely, continuing education for teachers,
or telemedicine to name just a few common Internet applications
rapidly expanding in the developing world.
Cost Savings of Broadband Wireless Over Fiber
The country has spent a couple billion dollars on fiber in urban
areas, but progress has been limited due to costs. To connect the
rest of the country with fiber, they are probably looking at around
20 billion dollars.
Tekniam can bring connectivity to these areas with the RUCS and
cover about 90% of their country far more cost effectively, for
about half a billion dollars with broadband strength speeds.
Despite being a mountainous country with hilly terrain, Tekniam can
do in months what would take fiber companies a decade.
In Many Ways, Broadband Connectivity Is More Important Than
Roads
Once people have access to broadband Internet in developing
countries and a certain level of online proficiency, it can become
a tremendous tool for economic development.
80% of this country is subsistence farming, which means they are
making an average of about 2 dollars
a day or less doing back-breaking labor. If people in rural areas
can connect to the outside world via broadband Internet, a vast
range of new economic opportunities opens up for them, like doing
Turk work via Amazon.com.
Turk work is contracted through Amazon for jobs that require
human eyes to make decision computers are incapable of. For
example, the computer downloads two pictures and asks is it the
right one or the left one correct? Is the blue tool in the right
place here, or the right place there?
Companies contract with Amazon to do quality control, like
taking pictures of all of their boxes of tools going out. If a
computer can't tell if a tool is in the right place as easily as a
human can, they will pay someone living anywhere in the world
5 cents to look at a photo to tell if
the tool is in the right place or not.
Turk work via Amazon.com is only one example of these dramatic
new economic opportunities sweeping the developing nations
connecting low-cost labor with quality management in industrialized
nations that can pay a worker ten times what they are making as
subsistence farmers.
Tekniam's RUCS is breakthrough technology changing the world in
Africa and other developing
countries. delivering broadband Internet with a compact, easy to
carry device that can throw a powerful signal with a remarkably low
power draw. All this at a fraction of the cost of what has ever
been possible before!
Media Contact
Tim
Stranahan, Tekniam, 1 (980) 290-8305, tims@tekniam.com,
https://www.tekniam.com/
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