Friday, May 2, 2008

Meraki-The Love Route to the Web, WCIT 2008



Innovators: Sanjit Biwas (r.) and John Bicket have created inexpensive wireless technology that allows Internet signals to carry into remote areas.

Over the past two years Meraki has powered several thousand wireless networks across 70 countries and opened up the Internet to people who otherwise could never afford it.

The mission of the company is to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people. Read more about how these two 25-year old PhD students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founders of Meraki, a Silicon Valley start-up that has powered thousands of simple, inexpensive wireless networks around the world, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1212/p13s01-stct.html?page=1


Now we can tell Telekom Malaysia to close down its miserable service and mediocre effort to try to connect the rural areas.

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