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        In a bid to bring the rural populace under the net, Ericsson India Pvt Ltd has come out with the 'Gramjyothi Rural Broadband Project', an initiative to introduce benefits of WCDMA/HSPA technology in rural India and to connect communities to high-speed internet services.

        The project launched at Mahabalipuram offers hosts of benefits through mobile broadband applications across 18 villages and 15 towns in the region and would cater to about one lakh people.

        By creating a stable ecosystem based on WCDMA/HSPA technology, Ericsson will offer high-speed internet so that these villages can access a range of new services like telemedicine, e-education, e-governance, online local information, voice and video call services and live TV entertainment.

        This initiative seeks to demonstrate how WCDMA/HSPA technology can be a major catalyst for social and economic empowerment in this developing region, helping to bridge the digital divide and increase prodictivity and quality of life. Communities. More than 3,000 high school students would be benefited through this facility wherein they could pursue e-learning courses, besides gaining access to new information and educational resources.Apart from that, the rural folk would benefit from the services like live interactive check-ups via telemedicine. Speaking to mediapersons at Mahabalipuram, Mats Granryd, managing director, Ericsson India said that Ericsson aims to help the rural population in experiencing broadband applications, thanks to Department of Telecommunication for their support.

        P Balaji, VP, marketing, Ericsson India said that they had chosen this unique location to demonstrate the power of 3G and build an efficient and affordable rural broadband network.

        He said that the villagers can visit the centres located at Manamai, Thiruvidandai and Vadugambadi and log onto the high speed internet for any information. Added to this, they could fill forms for birth certificates, ration cards and voter IDs.

        Yet another facility is that a teacher from Chennai could impart education to villagers likewise a doctor from any part could treat patients. Gramjyoti project is supported by Apollo Hospitals, Hand In Hand, Edurite, One97, CNN and Cartoon Network. This project has been deployed currently in three places and would be taken to one lakh villages across the country and the project area has a bandwidth of 5MHZ spot in 21GHZ band.