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

They found no similar link for other causes of death or for deaths outside hospitals.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Peace with Turkey would give Armenia a new outside link.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and Armenia

With that went the island's chief link to the outside world (though there is still a weekly flight to Britain).

ECONOMIST: Flying and the flag

Owners of satellite phones milk this sole link to the outside world at a price per minute that a schoolteacher might hope to earn in a month, if only schools were open.

ECONOMIST: Postwar Iraq