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Wireless Reach quarterly newsletters

Volume 7, January 2009 Edition

Highlights — Robot brings trauma surgeons to patients in need |  Africa Com 2008 - relevant technology  |  Improving delivery of antiretroviral treatment in Kenya  |  Connecting students in rural China

Volume 6, October 2008 Edition

Highlights — 3G for all generations |  Rock star potential: 3G village phone programme in Indonesia  |  A school to call home  |  Travelling the world in metal boxes

Volume 5, July 2008 edition

Highlights — Village phone in Indonesia  |  Meet Mrs. Halimah: the first Indonesian village phone operator  |  Wireless Reach participates in the first Indonesian Microfinance Conference  |  A call for change: Wireless Reach sponsors the Youth Forum at ITU Telecom Africa 2008  |  Wireless Reach hosts the honourable Michael Michalak, U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam  |  The Mobile Giving Foundation creates a new way of contributing to the world through mobile phones  |  Archana Singh, Wireless Reach’s newest team member

Volume 4, April 2008 edition

Highlights — Accelerating the "market of the future"  |  Smartphones: for more than just checking e-mail  |  Advantages of social networking for education  |  New Wireless Reach partnership with the GSM Association  |  Education and technology, the perfect marriage

Volume 3, January 2008 edition

Highlights — The increased adoption of telemedicine  |  Bringing EV-DO rev. A connectivity to Indonesia  |  High-speed HSDPA connectivity in Sri Lanka  |  Guatemala project update  |  A royal celebration in Thailand  |  Wireless Reach BREW programme updates

Volume 2, September 2007 edition

Highlights — Comprehensive health care in underdeveloped areas  |  Connecting a rural clinic in need  |  Bringing high-speed connectivity to floating villages in Thailand  |  Helping rural India with Fisher Friend - a BREW application  |  Entrepreneurs make once unimaginable connections in rural China  |  First Wireless Reach HSDPA project launched  |  How one man is helping to change the world for the better  |  Dikembe Mutombo Foundation opens hospital in the Congo

Volume 1, June 2007 edition

Highlights — Qualcomm enables EV-DO Internet access to connect remote Guatemalan community  |  Developers rise to Qualcomm’s challenge by brewing innovative public service applications  |  Mobile phones and education converge  |  Village knowledge centres: from dropouts to artists  |  Grameen Technology Centre’s village phone

Resources

Wireless Reach brochure

 

Wireless Reach: Vietnam success stories — Download PDF

Media coverage

Qualcomm reaches out - Phones link underdeveloped areas to outside world
20 April 2007 — San Diego Union Tribune — View Source

Tata Consultancy Services wins the grand prize in Qualcomm's Wireless Reach BREW application funding programme
4 March 4 2007 — Tata Consultancy Services — View Source

Grameen's Yunus announces new partnership with ITU
Network of partners to combine power of ICTs and Micro-credit financing for the poor
3 December 2006 — International Telecommunication Union — View Source

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