
Connecting remote communities
6 Minute English
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A Farmer's Guide to the Internet
Katy lives in dorset a rural part of southwest england. She describes her internet connection as spasmodic, suddenly king but only for a short time and not in a regular way. Without the internet, he doesn't have a reliable weather report. So the villagers decided to build their own 50 meter high telephone transmission tower,. linking a network of five villages to the internet. Here is ama talking to b b c world service programm digital planet.
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