Title :
Rural telecommunications in Botswana
Author_Institution :
Botswana Telecommun. Corp., Gaborone, Botswana
Abstract :
The Botswana Telecommunications Corp., (BTC) has set as its task to provide an automatic telephone service to as many villages as possible with a population in excess of 500. A selection of the technologies used to meet the comparatively small capacity of transmission and switching requirements of the BTC is discussed. These include radio transmission systems, multi-access radio systems, point to point digital radio systems, point to point analogue radio systems, HF radio systems, line transmission systems, open-wire trunk carrier, open-wire subscriber carrier, and cable systems. Several other technologies have been examined and a brief synopsis of these is included
Keywords :
automatic telephone systems; radio systems; radiotelephony; telecommunication services; Botswana; Botswana Telecommunications Corp.; HF radio systems; automatic telephone service; cable systems; line transmission systems; multi-access radio systems; open-wire subscriber carrier; open-wire trunk carrier; point to point analogue radio systems; point to point digital radio systems; radio transmission systems; telecommunication services;
Conference_Titel :
Rural Telecommunications, 1988, International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-361-0
