Village Telco

Village Telco is an initiative to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software.

[2] The first Village Telco network was established by Dabba at Orange Farm, a township in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (South Africa).

[3] Technically, a Village Telco system consists of: These components together comprise an easy-to-use, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit.

The goal of bringing these together is to make local telephony in developing countries to be so cheap as to be virtually free.

This has become possible thanks to advances in open source telephony software and the dramatic decrease in the cost of wireless broadband technology.