Rural and last mile access

Economic Times: Govt plans to subsidise internet for rural India

Submitted by admin on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 05:09.

Worried over missing the broadband addition target, the government is now planning to give subsidy for new broadband connection in the rural parts of the country. The subsidy would be up to 50% of the total cost of setting the system by service providers. Also, running cost of internet in rural areas would be about half of those in the cities. These steps are being taken in a move to strengthen the egovernance network as the government has miserably failed on this front.

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Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/06/2008 - 08:17.

Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection is an innovative solution which enables operators to capture the rural market potential by offering voice and sms service to villages with relatively low investment.

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Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum 2008: Last Mile Solutions: ICT Strategy, Government and Regulatory Policy and USFs

26/08/2008 - 09:00
28/08/2008 - 17:00

This forum will bring together public and private sector giants to discuss last mile solutions, technologies, applications, business models and roadmaps to bridge the digital divide.

Key topics:

  • Government policy
  • Regulatory policy
  • USFs
  • Funding
  • 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, Satelllite, Broadband
  • Business models
  • Empowering African youth and women
  • Case studies
  • Capacity Building
  • Telecentres

Location(s)

Lilongwe
Lilongwe
Malawi
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MIT Tech Review: Long-Distance Wi-Fi

Submitted by admin on Thu, 20/03/2008 - 08:41.

ntel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. The wireless technology, called the rural connectivity platform (RCP), will be helpful to computer-equipped students in poor countries, says Jeff Galinovsky, a senior platform manager at Intel. And the data rates are high enough--up to about 6.5 megabits per second--that the connection could be used for video conferencing and telemedicine, he says.

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