Veea built a powerful platform that uniquely addresses the digital divide from Latin America to remote locations across Southeast Asia. InIndonesia, the world’s fourth most-populous country, Veea has joined forces with local service provider PT Bum Desa to overcome the barriers to affordable service for underserved communities. In Argamukti, a mountainside village atthe foot of the extinct Ciremai Volcano in the Majelengka District of West Java,communication services offered by the local service providers (Internet and cellular) are almost non-existent due to its remote location.
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Upon inception, the network has averaged 282 registered devices accessing the network and 50 concurrent active sessions per day. Village life in Argamukti has been transformed since the debut of the new system. By extending the benefits of the Internet to the edge where connectivity occurs, Veea has enabled the villagers of Argamukti to experience a “community cloud” allowing content to be stored locally. With flexible per-device bill capabilities, the product offering meets customers specific needs,as opposed to the traditional ‘one size fits all’ household approach. Veea’s network will eventually provide Internet connectivity and value-added services to a population of over 30 million people across 30,000 towns and villages and12 million surrounding farms, on the 16,772 islands in Indonesia.
