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Connecting the Next Billion: Empowering Rural India

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Considerable efforts over the last decade to provide Internet connectivity in rural India have yielded poor results, but the success of mobile telephony in recent years offers hope.
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Considerable efforts over the last decade to provide Internet connectivity in rural India have yielded poor results. However, the success of mobile telephony in rural India in recent years offers hope.

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A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

TL;DR: There is no single solution that can solve all rural connectivity problems, building gradually on the current achievements in order to reach ubiquitous connectivity, while taking into account the particularities of each region and tailoring the solution accordingly, seems the most suitable path to follow.
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A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity - Connecting the Remaining 4 Billions: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

TL;DR: A survey of technologies for providing connectivity to rural areas and that can help address this challenge, is provided and directions for future evolution of rural connectivity are outlined.
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SuperCell: A Wide-Area Coverage Solution Using High-Gain, High-Order Sectorized Antennas on Tall Towers.

TL;DR: It is shown that a solution encompassing a high-elevation platform in excess of 200 meters increases coverage by 5x and dense frequency reuse by using as many as 36 azimuthal sectors from a single location can adequately serve the rural coverage and capacity demands.
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Reducing the neurotrauma burden in India- a national mobilization.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors highlight that India has one of the highest TBI burdens due to road traffic accidents (RTAs), with 60% of head injuries being attributable to RTA and more than 150,000 lives being lost annually due to traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Growth and Potintial of Wireless Internet User in Rural India

Jasbir Singh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show the trend of the growth of mobile phone internet user in India, urban area and rural area but they focus on the growth rate of mobile internet in rural India.
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Connecting the next billion web users

TL;DR: The panel will debate the various technical challenges in overcoming the digital divide, and potential approaches to bring the Web to the underserved populations of the developing world.