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<P><FONT size=2>Hi<BR><BR>I have a contact through MTN who may be able
to help with the wireless certification but I have a few
questions:</FONT></P><FONT size=2>
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<LI>Why do we need wireless certification if the XO's are not going to be
directly connecting to a 3G network?</LI>
<LI>In the message from Jeff there is a calculation for 100 XO's. Why x
400?</LI>
<LI>Which Rotary club is looking to sponsor a deployment? In what area?</LI>
<LI>Any news on the setting up up of a formal OLPC structure is SA
yet?</LI></UL>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Marco</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: olpc-za-bounces@lists.laptop.org [<A
href="mailto:olpc-za-bounces@lists.laptop.org">mailto:olpc-za-bounces@lists.laptop.org</A>]
On Behalf Of Morgan Collett<BR>Sent: 27 November 2008 03:26 PM<BR>To: OLPC South
Africa Interest Group<BR>Subject: Re: [Olpc-za] OLPC Give Many pricing
reduced<BR><BR>On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 15:18, Jeff <jeff@wildcoast.com>
wrote:<BR>><BR>> On 27 Nov 2008, at 2:58 PM, Morgan Collett
wrote:<BR>><BR>>> <A
href="http://laptop.org/en/participate/give-many.shtml">http://laptop.org/en/participate/give-many.shtml</A>
has new pricing for<BR>>> the Give Many program.<BR>>><BR>>>
The minimum order is still 100 XOs, but now it seems the price has<BR>>>
come down to $259 per XO whereas it was previously $310.<BR>><BR>> Thanks
for the info, Morgan.<BR>><BR>> Does that mean it's available for purchase
through Amazon on the G1G1<BR>> program, too? (Guess not.) Last time I looked
it said that the product<BR>> is unavailable and they don't know when it will
be. ... And why won't<BR>> they let us buy from Amazon on the G1G1
program?<BR><BR>If we can get information on the required certifications for the
XO (ICASA I presume) then we can get South Africa added as a destination for
G1G1 through amazon.co.uk/xo. I have tried contacting ICASA but if anyone else
has contacts or time to spend on this it would be appreciated.<BR><BR>> I
have half the Rotary club here clamoring for them (they've just<BR>>
sponsored our WiFi network..... eventually after trying for a year an<BR>> a
half to get the promised sponsorship from ....... (names
withheld.)<BR>><BR>> Lemme see now, 100 x $259.00 = $25,900 =
R259,000. ..... times by 400<BR>> = R1,036,000.00 for us to get a
school up and running. We have the XS<BR>> server and support team, but where
do you think we can get the money?<BR>> Any suggestions?<BR><BR>I hear
rumours about more deployments coming to SA. I'll try (harder) to get in touch
with the funders (in the USA) so that we can recommend local schools for
them.<BR><BR>Regards<BR>Morgan<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Olpc-za
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