The Hindu Business Line : Reliance Info push into rural telephony

RELIANCE Infocomm today said it has embarked on an expansion programme that will reach out to four lakh villages across the country by year-end, and bring about "a new revolution in rural telephony."

Two out of three villages will be covered with voice and data access through the network in one of the fastest ever network rollout operations in the world, that would be accessible to 65 crore Indians, said a statement from the company.

The company's 80,000 km of terabit optical fibre cable network forms the backbone of its countrywide expansion, which will facilitate unlimited and uninterrupted voice, data and video applications.

This expansion involving 8,500 BTS (base transceiver station) towers will also cover 91 per cent of the country's national highways and 85 per cent of the rail routes. Eventually, the company's footprint will cover the entire inhabited area of the country. This initiative is expected to increase India's teledensity to 10 per cent by the end of the year, ahead of the national target, said the release.

As on December 31, 2004, Reliance Infocomm's subscriber base across its 20 circles stood at 10,298,208, according to the Association of Unified telecom Providers of India (AUSPI).

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