  Rural areas continue to be plagued by limited data connectivity due to poor
and unreliable power infrastructure, poor backhaul connectivity and lack of
economic incentives for telecom providers. These factors continue to be an
impediment to providing reliable, highly available and bandwidth intensive
mobile services and applications to function well in such contexts. This paper
presents the design, implementation and deployment of GreenLinks, a new
ground-up platform that enables intermittency-aware, reliable and available
cellular services and application support in rural contexts under extreme
operational environments with limited power and no existing cellular coverage.
Unlike the conventional monolithic cellular network architecture, GreenLinks
enables a distributed (and potentially disjoint) collection of open,
programmable cellular base stations to offer a gamut of both conventional
cellular services and new forms of distributed edge services. GreenLinks offers
new application primitives to support different types of intermittency-aware
distributed mobile edge services including P2P transactions, voice-based social
media applications, and distributed mobile sensing applications. Using a
participatory sensing white spaces approach, a GreenLinks base stati
