One of the fundamental issues with connectivity in Africa, is the lack of fiber or copper cables in rural areas where a large portion of the population live. The mobile operators have stepped up to the challenge with their mobile broadband offerings. However the costs of mobile broadband are still comparatively high for the rural areas. Additionally, the roll out of a GSM based mobile network is costly due to the infrastructure costs. Almost all hardware and software systems used by mobile operators are propriety and costly
Possible alternatives such as wireless mesh's have hitherto been unwieldy to set up,Afrimesh intends to change that:
A new South African project called Afrimesh aims to solve this problem of complexity by making setting up a wireless mesh network as simple as buying a WIFI router and switching it on, with a few minutes of configuration. Afrimesh will be a simplified dashboard for network management and configuration. The project was founded by Antoine Van Gelder with assistance from the Meraka institute at CSIR and is based on the work done with the B.A.T.M.A.N project.
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