Where can i get some information about rural mobile telecom in southeast asia?
Rural Mobile Telecom:
Rajya SabhaGovernment have set a target to achieve 80 million rural subscribers by 2010. Department of Information Technology has embarked upon a programme of setting up 100,000 Community Service Centres (CSCs) to cater to e-governance requirements of 600,000 villages in the country in a phased manner.
Government have launched a scheme, through Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), for provision of support for setting up and managing 631 infrastructure sites spread over 70 districts in North-Eastern states for providing mobile services including other Wireless Access Services (WAS) in the specified rural and remote areas, where there is no existing fixed wireless or mobile coverage. The Government has also approved a scheme for providing support for establishing 100,000 Broadband,Internet enabled, Common Services Centres (CSCs) in rural areas of the country including that of North-Eastern States. Department of Information Technology will implement the scheme in a public private partnership mode.The support for the North-East for this scheme has been pegged at 75% of the normative value as against national value of 33per cent.
This information was given by Dr.Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply to a question by Shrimati Shobhana Bhartia and Shrimati Supriya Sule.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Rural Mobile Telecom:
Rajya SabhaGovernment have set a target to achieve 80 million rural subscribers by 2010. Department of Information Technology has embarked upon a programme of setting up 100,000 Community Service Centres (CSCs) to cater to e-governance requirements of 600,000 villages in the country in a phased manner.
Government have launched a scheme, through Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), for provision of support for setting up and managing 631 infrastructure sites spread over 70 districts in North-Eastern states for providing mobile services including other Wireless Access Services (WAS) in the specified rural and remote areas, where there is no existing fixed wireless or mobile coverage. The Government has also approved a scheme for providing support for establishing 100,000 Broadband,Internet enabled, Common Services Centres (CSCs) in rural areas of the country including that of North-Eastern States. Department of Information Technology will implement the scheme in a public private partnership mode.The support for the North-East for this scheme has been pegged at 75% of the normative value as against national value of 33per cent.
This information was given by Dr.Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply to a question by Shrimati Shobhana Bhartia and Shrimati Supriya Sule.
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