[cr-india] Does this have any relevance to CR?

[Vickram Crishna]

At 10:27 AM +0530 2/14/05, Arun Mehta wrote:
>Vickram Crishna wrote:
>
>>At 11:55 PM +0530 2/13/05, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
>>
>>>USE OF WIRELESS EQUIPMENT DELICENSED: The government has 
>>>delicensed the use of low power
>>
>>Yes, peripherally. But...
>
>More than peripherally. Suppose you have a hundred villages speaking 
>the same language, over a large distributed area. It would be far 
>far cheaper to set up a small station in each village, and 
>interconnect them with WiFi. Instead of one central broadcasting 
>center, you'd be able to broadcast from any village, and reach them 
>all. Also, it would be easier for the listeners to interact. Even 
>without a phone connection, they could participate in the program 
>from any village.

By peripherally, I meant of course that without a framework in place 
to allow poor villagers (for that matter, even rich villagers) from 
running their own community stations, any liberalisation of data 
networking spectrum has moot value for community radio in India. 
Delicensing of low power in the FM audio spectrum is an absolute 
priority in my opinion.
-- 
Vickram