Examinando por Autor "Simó-Reigadas, Javier"

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Expanding Rural Community Networks Through Partnerships with Key Actors
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022) Prieto-Egido, Ignacio; Simó-Reigadas, Javier; Castro-Barbero, Eva; Quispe Tacas, River
The infrastructures deployed by classical telecommunications oper ators are appropriate and cost-effective for urban-oriented business models, but rural areas with very low population density require alternatives both in terms of the technology used and in business models. New generation networks become more and more dense and heterogeneous, increasing the gap as operators can not spend the required CAPEX and OPEX in sparsely populated areas where the revenues will certainly be very low. At the same time, an increasing number of communities worldwide provide themselves networking solutions, which is becoming a global alternative move ment called "community networks". However, rural areas are challenging because of the technical difficulti es of getting connected to the world and the scarcity of technical skills, among other reasons. Other stakeholders such as municipalities or regional governments are also relevant actors but cannot provide a solution by themselves. Partnerships between different actors for deploying rural connectivity could be the answer, taking advantage somehow of the "shared infrastructure model" proposed in IETF RFC7962. This paper analyses the relationship between dif ferent stakeholders and the main elements to consider when deploying mobile communications services in isolated and sparsely populated regions. The analysis uses a case study from the Napo River Network in Peru and compares it with other experiences such as Zenzeleni Networks in South Africa or Rizhoma tica in Mexico.
Interdisciplinary Alliances to Deploy Telemedicine Services in Isolated Communities: The Napo Project Case
(MDPI, 2018-07-02) Prieto-Egido, Ignacio; Simó-Reigadas, Javier; Martínez-Fernández, Andrés
Rural telecommunications projects in developing regions have a long history of unsuccessful experiences due to the complexity of such projects: Practically none of the dimensions of integral sustainability are straight forward in such projects. When sustainability becomes a priority, it is difficult for traditional alliances of development to account for all critical success factors. In the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, some institutions have developed rural telecommunications projects along the Napo River during the last 10 years. The experience has shown at each stage what aspects of sustainability were not taken into account because the partners involved did not have all the needed capacities, and this has made the alliances of partners evolve in a sustainability-driven manner. This paper analyzes these cases and assesses how sustainability has evolved in relation to the structure of such alliances.