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Mobile Phones to Warn of Rampaging Elephants

..e forestry department of India's Jharkhand State has started handing out free mobile phones to villages to warn them of rampaging elephants. The mobile phone distribution schemes was launched early this month and over 100 phones have been hande more

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100 Mln. Internet Subscribers By 2014 for India

.. to raise its Internet subscriber base to 100 million and provide Internet connectivity to all villages by 2014 and also reiterated that the 3G spectrum auctions would take place within this year, Minister of State for Communication &IT Mr. more

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China Mobile Spending $10 Billion on Rural GSM Coverage

..ao. The company has spend RMB19.5 billion over past five years expanding its network to 60,000 villages. The coverage will be limited to GSM based services, and will cover 10,000 additional villages and set up 100,000 rural information service s more

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Kazakhstan Operator Commissions 3,500th Base Station

.., Kcell says that it has commissioned its 3,500th base station - expanding its coverage to all villages with a population of more than 5000 people and in 85% of villages with a population of more than 2000 people. At the moment Kcell has the la more

Related Tags: kcell, gsm-kazakhstan, fintur-holdings, veysel-aral, Kazakhstan


Warid Telecom Commissions 6,000th Base Station

..ion. As a result Warid is now able to provide GSM services to more than 6000 cities, towns and villages and is covering more than 12000 Km of highways and major roads; across the country. Warid Telecom and the Universal Service Fund (USF) also  more

Related Tags: warid-telecom, base-station, universal-service-fund, zong, Pakistan


Zain, Western Union Planning Mobile Money Transfer Service

..t only in the cities but also directly to the villages across these countries.  more

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RCom adds a record 5 million New subscribers in January 2009

..ices in January 2009 and has rolled out its services in 11,000 towns and 300,000 villages in a phased manner during the course of the month. The company has added another 3,000 towns taking its GSM network to over 14,000 towns and 400,000 villa more

Related Tags: itu, reliance-communications, cdma, personal, reliance, gsm, India


WiMAX Leaps Digital Divide in Developing Asia

..that the strongest growth will come outside the major cities of Asia. Subscriptions in villages and small towns are forecast to grow at almost 300% per year, three times the rate of major cities. Government policies aimed at closing the rural- more

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Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village

As part of the Millennium villages project, Ericsson and operator, Zain have built a green-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability.  more

Related Tags: sim-card, sim, solar-power, roaming, itu, wind, ericsson, zain, Kenya


Free Phones Given to Indian Villages to Fight Naxalite Terrorists

.. so that they can call for assistance if Maoist terrorists are in their vicinities. Around 220 villages have been given a single handset each which is preprogrammed with the contract details of the local police services. Jharkand is one of the t more

Related Tags: roaming, ict, police, jharkhand, towers, India


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