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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by jlgaddis on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:14PM (#7003935)
> Surely the main way people access the internet is through 3G either directly on the phones or on mobile broadband.

I don't know if that's true or not but I'd be willing to bet that most of the cellular towers there (providing 3G/mobile broadband) are themselves using microwave backhauls, quite possibly the same one(s) carrying the "Internet connection".

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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by mattlutze on Friday January 03, 2014 @06:45AM (#7004973)
Yeah, even cellular data needs to come from somewhere. The towers generally connect to the same backbone used for ground line Internet. You wouldn't do satellite internet connections for cellular towers because of the awful latency.
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