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Telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson has offered to deploy its solar-powered satellite phones in power-starved Japan.
“We are in talks with various groups…the operators, the Government, humanitarian agencies. Nothing is formal yet and we are waiting to hear back from these groups,” Ms Rima Qureshi, Senior Vice-President and Head of the company's CDMA business unit, told a group of visiting presspersons from India.
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Ericsson is also looking to provide other humanitarian aid in Japan, which was hit by a devastating Tsunami a fortnight back.
As an immediate result of the disaster, about 9.7 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power capacity went offline in the region, along with about 9 GW of additional thermal power capacity. This, coupled with the threat of radiation leakages from the Daiichi Fukushima nuclear reactor, had compelled Indian companies to give their staff the option of returning back home.
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Zensar and other IT companies have taken the lead in this direction.
According to the World Bank, the damages due to the natural calamity could be up to $235 billion and the reconstruction efforts could take five years.
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