A distributed rural telephone system for developing countries
S.A.G. Chandler, S. Brown, T. Hasle, Ni Jian, Spy Munthali, K. Stealey, S J Braithwaite, B.R.B. Bagile, L. Christdoulides, P.J. Chitamu, C.M. Hayler, D.K. Philips, Stephanie D. Smith, H.R. Mgombelo · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1993
The authors describe work on a novel rural radio telephony system which, by using an exchangeless network structure, is uniquely suited to providing a basic telephone service to widely-separated sites, for example villages in developing countries where telephone provision is rare. They lay out the traffic analysis of a distributed telephone system which is designed to meet these requirements at a realistic level of equipment cost.