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Facebook Launches Open-Source Wireless Access Project

Facebook just launched OpenCellular -- an open source hardware and software project designed to bring more affordable wireless access to remote areas. “One of the goals of the projects was to build a system with very little physical footprint and the ability to use already available infrastructure because the cost of the land, tower, power and security for setting up a cellular network is often higher than that of the actual access point itself,” TechCrunch reports.

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