Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced the launch of a high-speed wireless internet service plan aimed at 500,000 villages. The company's rural initiatives include, BharatNet Plan, GrameenVAS and M2M (Machine to Machine) solutions.
The high-speed wireless Internet service - BharatNet Plan- will cover over 20,000 rural locations. RCom's wireless division president S.P. Shukla said that RCom's rural thrust would drive internet penetration across rural and suburban terrain and provide value-added services specific to the rural needs. BharatNet plan offers speeds of approximately 153 Kbps, which is 4 to 8 times the current dial-up speed of the wire-line services. It will be offered at Rs. 98 a week.
GrameenVAS will offer value-added services (VAS) to cater to specific needs of rural mobile phone users. Its services will include providing market rates, agriculture and animal husbandry updates, and weather forecast in Indian languages. These services can be accessed via different modes, namely Voice Portals, SMS, USSD, Data (R-World) etc. Grameen VAS is priced at Rs.15/month.
M2M applications will aid automation of agro- and irrigation services, water level monitoring, data gathering for milk and agri-cooperatives, fisheries, poultry, and soil analysis.
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