Abstract
Inequality of medical service accessibility in rural areas can be mitigated by using telemedicine technology. Practical telemedicine services can be supported by efficient mobile communication infrastructures in rural areas. However, in developing countries, mobile data service in rural areas might be inferior. In this work, we developed an application to measure and collect 3G data communication quality in rural areas in Thailand. We used data throughput to mainly determine quality of data service, as opposed to using signal strength as publicly published by service providers. We then analyzed these sample data and evaluated whether the current quality of service can support various telemedicine services in Thailand. We found that, signal qualities were consistent during a day, but dropped a little on weekends. Moreover, three major operators could support telemedicine services when users utilized the network at fu1l3G speed. However, there might be problems using services if the fair usage policies which limited the maximum throughput were applied to users.
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