Congo is a country with an inadequate telecom infrastructure.
The public telephone network does not function. Commercial wireless telephone networks only exist in three of the largest cities, but they too have considerable problems and are very expensive. No Internet Access Providers exist. To improve communication for NGOs in Congo, Worldcom designed a system to adapt the already existing short wave infrastructure to digital communication and to connect it to the Internet. In 1996, an experimental network was installed consisting of four stations equipped with cheap radios, a computer, a radio modem and a special software package.