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Bidders shortlisted for AP broadband project
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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Dec. 20
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has shortlisted the preferred service provider for its ambitious Rs 600-crore rural broadband network project that seeks to connect all villages across the State by December 2005. 3Com is among the shortlisted companies.
Speaking at a four-day twin International conferences on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based Computer Systems here on Monday organised by the International Institute of Information Technology and C-DAC, the Principal Secretary Information Technology and Communication, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Dr J.C. Mohanty, said "we have shortlisted the preferred bidders from out of seven companies and a decision of the State Cabinet is awaited to announce the final choice."
The broadband project with a 1-gigabyte pipe up to the mandal level initially hopes to reach out e-governance services to the doorstep of people through Internet kiosks. Out of the planned 6,000 rural kiosks, 1,400 have been deployed.
Earlier, Dr Martin Kay of Stanford University, speaking on aligning sentences as a process of synthesising language, said that statistical machine translation posed challenges and effort was on to crack this puzzle.
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