The majority of telephony service subscribers in the City of Maputo – Mozambique’s capital and largest city – are from mobile networks. However, the level of Quality of Service (QoS) and mobile coverage offered by current licensed carriers remains a challenge in peri-urban areas, which are areas with mixed rural and urban features with a lack of urban attributes such as accessibility, services, infrastructure, etc…
To better prepare for and respond to national emergencies, the Department of Homeland Security in the US needed to adopt new technologies that facilitated community collaboration..