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The role of cheap and easy access to various telecommunication facilities is crucial for further community development. Such an observation is of particular importance for the developing countries all over the world since reliable and open access to communication systems can fasten the reduction of the development gap. In this work we analyze the benefits that can be obtained by application of TV White Space network, i.e. the network that operates in vacated TV band in a cognitive manner. The whole analysis is conducted based on specific use-case, i.e. the test network deployed in the Mankweng Township.
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It is worth mentioning that analogous situation took place in Poland, the national country of the third author, where due to historical reasons decision on the adoption of MPEG2 or MPEG4 was made much later than in the west Europe. In consequence, Poland had newer standard earlier than many other west countries.
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A. Kliks has been funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the status activity supporting development of young scientists and doctoral students in 2015 within task DS-MK-08/81/155. The first and second authors acknowledge the financial support by the South African Department of Science and Technology, University of Limpopo and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Ramoroka, M.T., Masonta, M.T., Kliks, A. (2016). TV White Space Networks Deployment: A Case Study of Mankweng Township in South Africa. In: Glitho, R., Zennaro, M., Belqasmi, F., Agueh, M. (eds) e-Infrastructure and e-Services. AFRICOMM 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 171. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_1
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