Network Solutions

People lack many things: jobs, shelter, food, health care and drinkable water. Today, being cut off from basic telecommunications services is a hardship almost as acute as these other deprivations, and may indeed reduce the chances of finding remedies to them." UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan

The Bristol Wireless solution offers digitally disadvantaged people free access, along with a competitive and reliable service to heavy users, whilst maximising bandwidth resources. We anticipate that in the near future we will be able to offer low cost telephony via fixed VOIP connections. We also hope to offer access through dual Wifi/mobile phones in our hotspot areas.

Much of the pioneering work has been with the assistance of over 100 volunteers over a 4 year period. The engineering problems and scalable network topology have been resolved with thousands of hours of painstaking work.

Click here for the BBC news report about our work

• Bristol Wireless has now moved to a robust working Bristol Wireless network solution.
• We are currently undergoing a massive extension to our network. In the next year we expect to be able to provide fixed wifi access to most of the city and roaming access to many hotspot locations.
• Bristol Wireless have been using fixed VOIP telephony for some time, we hope to offer low cost mobile telephony in hotspots, and very low cost fixed telephony with rooftop connections.

  

Having developed a working model in Bristol we are now exploring how similar network infrastructure can be applied to other cities worldwide. We believe that the development of similar city- and region-wide networks, offering free access to digitally disadvantaged people, offers great hope for a low cost solution for cities and rural areas throughout the world.

• Delivery over a wide geographical city and rural area
• Low cost backbone and Hot Spot Zones
• Optimises expensive bandwith
• Internet, fixed VOIP telephony.
• Low power solution - licence exempt

  

Bristol Wireless - offers a working, low cost Wi-Fi solution from a range of suppliers comprising a blend of EU-compliant equipment. With the expertise of Bristol Wireless it represents the product of of thousands of hours of development.

Click here: http://wirelessimage3.pbwiki.com/f/coverage.jpg for a map of our network

For enquries about commercial or consultancy work please contact info@bristolwireless.net