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  • ISRO plans internet connectivity to remotest villages

    BANGALORE: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has ambitious plans to provide internet connectivity to the remotest Indian villages. ISRO is looking at a possible association with BSNL in this mission.

    Addressing a function to launch BSNL’s ‘Data One’ broadband services in Bangalore, ISRO chairman and Secretary, Department of Space G Madhavan said the organisation has plans to join hands with BSNL to spread the latest telecom technologies to remote rural areas.

    “Almost 75 per cent of the population living in the rural areas is deprived of good telecom connectivity. ISRO’s space technology and BSNL’s ground linkage would be used together to change this scenario,” he said.

    Declaring that connectivity to inaccessible areas could be provided only by satellites, which could be, networked in a local are through wireless, Madhavan said that internet bandwidth could be beamed through ISRO’s communication satellites and transmitted through a wireless network within remote villages.

    “Satellite communication connectivity would be far cheaper than laying of optic fiber cables through mountains and unreachable places,” he said.

    This along with the announcement made by the Union IT and Telecommunications minister Dayanithi Maran on the possibility of launching a sub-Rs.10, 000 computer by June 2005, during his address on the occasion of BSNL ‘Data One’ launch in Chennai indicates the government’s intentions to make computers and the internet more affordable and popular.

  • Boeing selects Eutelsat for in-flight internet connectivity

    Boeing selects Eutelsat for in-flight internet connectivity

    New Delhi: Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading providers of satellite communication, has been selected by Connexion, a business unit of Boeing for a three-month demonstration of in-flight broadband Internet access for passengers flying between Frankfurt and Washington D C.
     

    Under this facility, Eutelsat will provide satellite capacity through its ATLANTIC BIRD 2 and also through EUTELSAT II-F4. Through these two satellites Boeing can offer a seamless network over the Atlantic Ocean and Europe to Lufthansa, and to British Airways that plans to begin in-flight demonstrations in the middle of this month.

    Fly Net enables users to – Full access to personal/business e-mail accounts as well as files; Send and receive mails with heavy attachments; Get latest news updates; Find out more about your destination; Shop on the move. The new service, which Lufthansa has branded as Fly Net, will operate through the service offered by Connexion, a business unit of the Boeing Company. This will enable passengers on board a Lufthansa German Airlines Boeing 747-400 to use their personal laptops and ones provided by the airline for high-speed connections to the Internet, including full access to their personal or business email accounts and files.