# Closing Connectivity Gap: An Overview of Mobile Coverage Solutions for Not-Spots in Rural Zones
## 5 Conclusions  
Nowadays, complete rural internet access may be an incongruuous reality due to the lack of efforts to deploy a suitable mobile networks infrastructure. However, data demand has grown recently since many rural inhabitants consider using technology to improve their quality of life by implementing trending technologies, such as IoT. Although Latin American countries have recently envisaged closing the connectivity gap, there are remote geographical zones where not-spots are a significant challenge to governments because they strive to outpace inequality under the insight of fully fledged coverage.  
Bearing in mind our study cases, in Mexico and Colombia, which have economically and technologically developed in the last decade, the connectivity gaps are noticeable. Therefore, implementing alternative and efficient solutions--as listed in Section 3--will involve hooking the peripheral population up with reliable deployments. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the reshaping of a noteworthy need for connectivity since most of our performed activities leverage digitalization growth to partake in affordability and access. Although several rural populations remain fully offline, the recent efforts to stimulate new steady links have triggered new opportunities to access online education, employment, or critical health and sanitation advice.  
We have summarized some strategies to strengthen connectivity in rural environments, especially for Latin American countries. By establishing statistics that best draw the mentioned phenomena, we encourage further access to ICT and encourage the target of providing affordable access to the internet in developed countries, which in turn considers rural and geographically remote populations. Hence, solutions such as UAVs, HAPs/LAPs, and LEO satellites have arisen for most cost-effective bargaining. However, we have comprehensively studied UAS scope in communication because its efficient maneuverability can solve the coverage problem through a solid construction of either GBS or FANET approaches.  
[PERSON] carried out the most literature search, outlined, drafted, and wrote the manuscript. Also, [PERSON] sketched all the figures and tables by collecting the information from references. [PERSON] and [PERSON] provided the main insights of the Discussion, reviewed the draft and furnished substantial comments. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.  
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Data Availability StatementThis article has retrieved information from GSM Association Intelligence databases and reports. Both global MCI and RDP may be consulted through 2020-GSMA Mobile Connectivity Index. (c) GSMA Intelligence 2004-2021.  
[PERSON] would like to acknowledge to the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) since this work has been partially supported by national scholarship with id. 1013611.  
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