[cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

[Gora Mohanty]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:44:20 +0530
Andrea Tazzari <andreat at auroville.org.in> wrote:

> Hi Gora,
> Thanks for your observation.
> I have circulate your message in our developer's team.

I have been talking to a friend of mine who runs an Internet
radio music station about building a mobile application for
the site. With PhoneGap, such an application can be used
across a large number of handsets. Music will obviously require
a connection with larger bandwidth than GPRS, but the front-end
application can be the same, and moreover, the interface can easily
be restyled with CSS.

Would be glad to take a shot at building such an application.
Due to commitments at work, it would be difficult for me to
commit right now to a fixed time line. Nevertheless, let
me know if this sounds interesting.

[...]
> I have a connection @ 199 Rs/monts (unlimited traffic) with BSNL.
> Soon I'll increase the band-with in order to test with a better
> sound quality.
[...]

Auroville Radio is doing just speech, right? I really do not think
that music will work on a GPRS connection, but do you have any plans
of trying?

Another thought: If streaming speech over GPRS is working well, it
ought to be possible to send similar audio back to the radio
station. Thus, one could have a live radio chat, or something like
citizen journalism.

Regards,
Gora