CorDECT WLL technology has already been deployed in some sites in India and overseas as shown in Plate 3. The advantages of deploying this system have been discussed in the following case studies.
Case Study 1:
Nellikuppam is a small country town in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. The EID Parry and Company managed by the Murugappa Group are controlling the sugarcane and other allied produces in the area. n-Logue Communications has helped deploy corDECT WLL system in the Nellikuppam area to benefit the sugarcane farmers. Several kiosks have been located in the homes of several farmers, who are literate enough to understand and operate the system, after sufficient training. The kiosks will have a PC, power backup and in some instances a printer also. Between 30 and 50 farmers register with one of the kiosks depending on their location and get to know the prices of their produce including sugarcane at the click of the mouse. The farmers also find out about other information like the weather, other market position etc. The most impressive thing about this facility is that the information is provided in the local language, Tamil in this case. These centres also provide opportunities for the farmers to browse and educate themselves in various other fronts. It was expected that this area would have more than 500 subscribers in rural Cuddalore district by the end of 2001 and expected to grow to 800-1000 in the next couple of years. This will be a first in terms of rural teledensity in rural India and a breakthrough in terms of rural Internet penetration.
Case Study 2:
Gyandoot is a community-owned rural Internet project. This has the active involvement of the district administration and zilla parishad of Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh. This is a self-sustainable project as well. This community has established kiosks or information centres. The centres are equipped with a PC, printer and a backup UPS and are managed by the kiosk operators. The purpose of this project is to provide commercial Internet and voice connectivity in the rural areas of Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh. Using this, the State Government put their procedural forms and the other utility applications on the system so that the rural people can communicate with the government through the Net. This has also facilitated the intra-village communication. Due to some limitations this system had, n-Logue Communications offered corDECT WLL system through these kiosks offering Interconnections to all the villages in the Dhar district.
Gyan Community has taken up e-governance in a big way and made it possible for the villagers to register for applications and public grievance redressal online along with rural e-mail facilities. They can also access land record information, market price for their products and participate in the village auctions. The provision of sustainable and economically viable telephone and Internet communication will enable all round development of this rural area for economic stability of the local people.
Case History 3:
Midas Communication and n-Logue Communications in association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA started a prestigious SARI (Sustainable Access in Rural India) joint Project. It was proposed to undertake deployment of telephones and Internet in villages of Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. The SARI project seeks to show that viable market exists for information and communication in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu. It is proposed to connect 1000 villages and demonstrate that rural access can be sustainable.
SARI has chosen corDECT WLL system and on 31st October and 1st November 2001 a demonstration was held for the launch of e-governance services and it was a successful launch. Again, the interesting part of all this connectivity was that it was in the local language i.e. Tamil. All these programs are aimed at creating a strong rural community and thus a strong India.
Case Study 4:
The deployment suiting the rural environment in India was extended to the other parts of the world. Paragominas in Brazil, South America was chosen for the WLL system installation on commercial basis due to its superiority and easy installation. This project took off against the big competitors due to its wireless operation. Also, this is the only system, which offers simultaneous Voice, and Internet data and this impressed the Brazilians.