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The mobile vans are connected to the main server through V-Sat connectivity or GPRS wireless connection. It will move to residential areas near an open space to enable people to use it. “The mobile van will be the additional service station of BangaloreOne centres operating at 20 places in the city,’’ secretary of e-governance, Rajeev Chawla said.

Broadband will change the way we lead our lives by creating new segments of Industry and jobs. Wireless has improved the teledensity in India and would similarly drive the broadband growth.

Studies across the world have proved that higher broadband penetration has helped the global economy to move from recession to recovery. A recent McKinsey study projected that a country's GDP improves by 0.6 percent for every 10 percent increase in penetration of broadband and also improves the competitiveness of a nation.

BSNL wireless broadband services, using WiMAX technology, was launched by Minister of State Sachin Pilot from his constituency Ajmer today. The service was launched at a function in Pisangan Telephone Exchange in Ajmer district.

The service was launched by Minister of State Sachin Pilot from his constituency of Ajmer in Rajasthan at a function in Pisangan Telephone Exchange.

This technology offers broadband speed of 7 Mbps at a distance of 15 kms, Pilot said.

Ms Patil, who is on a visit to the islands, said the network would provide connectivity between the various Government departments and be a platform for e-governance and other IT-enabled services. It would also serve as a communication channel for disaster management, in case such needs arise, she said.

The ambitious project, when complete, will enable people to access the Internet from anywhere in the city, without a cable, through their laptops or personal digital assistants (PDAs).

The influx of technology is diminishing the boundary between school and home. Schools will no longer get over when students leave the premises; the virtual school will take over as students' access school resources in addition to resources from across the world from their desktop or mobile device at home or any Internet café.

With ICT-enabled kiosks or common service centers (CSC) dotting India’s rural map, WiMax could play a major role in delivering various applications to rural India. These include online bill payment, delivery of agriculture, healthcare and entertainment services, solutions for e-commerce activities, including commodity price information, online trading and banking transactions.

Pune is creating history by becoming the first Indian city to go ‘unwired,’- providing round-the-clock seamless internet connectivity. Under the aegis of the ‘Unwire Pune’ project, plans are to set-up a commercial meshed Wi-Fi and WiMax deployment to provide fast network access to the thousands of users from the private, corporate, administrative and education sectors. The project is an initiative by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in collaboration with Intel Technology, acting as the advisor, and Microsense, the service provider offering broadband wireless services.

"We are going to have these community access points in shops, community centres and the like. This means that the man in the community can go to the shop, which has an electronic access point, and pay his bill so you do not have to have the actual hardware and software in your home," he stated.

Berlin soll kostenloses WLAN bekommen. Zwei Pilotprojekte sollen möglichst bald starten, kündigte der Berliner Wirtschaftssenator Harald Wolf (Die Linke) an. Eines Tages soll innerhalb des Berliner S-Bahn-Rings kostenloses Surfen möglich sein.

The WiFi facility will make it possible for 80 per cent of the federal capital’s 1.5 million residents to access the internet via broadband, he added.

“This project is aimed at increasing broadband coverage in the Klang Valley to 90 percent of the population by 2010,” he told reporters here after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the KL Wireless Metropolitan project.

This project was part-financed by the EU’s CIP INTERREG IIIB ARCHIMED, part of the Structural Funds programme for Malta 2004-2006.

This is to cover the length and breath of Damaturu, the state capital. The commissioning which held last weekend in Damaturu has made the state the first in the whole of Africa to deploy and experience the height of 21st century information and communication technology backbone for effective governance with the commissioning the comprehensive digital network.