Dabba is a South African company that is pioneering the establishment of village telcos.
It uses wireless technology to provide voice and data services to under-serviced areas.
Dabba has developed a distributed community based ownership model that encourages local entrepreneurs to provide telephone services not served by fixed line telcos at affordable prices.
He uses reprogrammed Wi-Fi routers as base stations, and open source software to build the components of a telecommunications network.
The first pilot network is in operation in Orange Farm, Gauteng, a township near Johannesburg.