it complements telecommunication infrastructure belonging to existing operators in the region and provides open and nondiscriminatory access to providers of wholesale and lastmile services as such the investment is helping to lower the investment barrier for nextgeneration accessnetwork nga services and eliminate the digital divide in areas currently without access to basic broadband services the underlying idea of capturing the data and transmitting it over a wireless channel makes use of a specific wireless technique known as cooperative communications which is lowoverhead and can be implemented using lowcost radio sets