In a bid to encourage cellular operators to expand their coverage in rural areas, the Indian Department of Telecom (DoT) is working on a scheme, which may allow operators to contribute only 2 per cent of their annual revenues to the Universal Services Obligation fund.
Soon Karnataka will have 400 wireless loop (WLL) stations, which will increase the landline capacity from 1.8 lakh to 4 lakh.
Nokia Siemens Networks has received a rural tender from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) to deploy broadband access across 7,000 Indian villages.
Dubai eGovernment has received ISO 9001:2000 quality certification from IMS Certification, an independent international certification body.
The Singapore Government will invest US$2 million to encourage the development of ICT applications to improve the cost-efficiency and quality of healthcare services in the island-state.
HCL Infosystems has introduced its environment protection initiatives under a comprehensive programme, called
The Belgium government is planning to issue multipurpose national chip cards to all citizens and residents.
The Union Government of India is ready to set up large number of data centres across the country to provide technological underpinning for initiatives under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).
E-Lock has deployed multiple licenses of its Digital Signature product to the High Courts of India.
It is expected that e-Commerce market in India will reach INR 9,210 crore by the end of the financial year, 2007-08. e-Commerce had an estimated market of INR 7,080 crore at the end of 2006-07.
