The answer: solar panels. Energy from the sun powers the satellite dishes and computers that link the areas with the world outside.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

In the fourteenth century, ships that arrived in Venice,Italy, from areas infected with bubonic plague had to stay outside port for forty days.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

It was the name given to permanent, cloudy areas in the sky outside our solar system.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

The damage outside the populated areas was almost as great.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He says there are shallow wells in remote areas outside of Docol, but most of the wells are now dry.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

International Labor Organization,ILO, figures say almost 80 percent of Thailand's female workforce fall into the informal sector category, many in areas outside Thailand's labor protection laws.

VOA: standard.2009.03.09