[OLPC India] Rural Connectivity

[Ankur Verma]

Muhammad,

Thank you for letting us know. This can be considered as a good connectivity
option at future deployments in India.

Best,
Ankur Verma

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Muhammad Ismail .H <ismail.ngr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dudes,
>
>     I am using BSNL's EV-DO right now. This is a brand new service from
> BSNL comes with flat rate INR 620/- per month with unlimited download at the
> speed of > 256Kbps. This is 3G wireless network and most of towers in rural
> areas. That means if don't have BSNL's dataone wire line broadband in your
> area ask the area CO about status of EV-DO service. More info available on
> www.bsnlevdoclub.com
>
>
>       The above site have lot of stuffs about the service . Go get it.
>
> with care and love,
>
>
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> 2008/7/17 Ankur Verma <ankur at laptop.org>:
>
>
>> Thank you Seth for pointing the link.
>>
>> I would welcome any problems/feedback from the community if they try out
>> cell phones/modems for connectivity.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ankur Verma
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/17/08, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> > The following link covers GPRS via a Motorolla Razor v3:
>>> >
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Modem#XO_Internet_Connectivity_using_Motorola_T-mobile_Razor_V3
>>>
>>> Ah yes...thats perfect and very useful.
>>> If community can try out more cell phone models and share their
>>> procedure on the wiki page that'd be great.
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Arjun
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > You have mentioned details about connecting to USB modems.
>>> > > However, interfacing a GPRS enabled cell phone would be a very
>>> > > different task (how does one interface to a cellphone?)
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Perhaps you can illustrate the procedure with a simple and commonly
>>> > > available cell-phone model ?
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > Arjun
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On 7/17/08, Ankur Verma <ankur at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I have been working on Internet connectivity of XO using modems at
>>> OLPC,
>>> > > > Cambridge whose details can be found here:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Modem
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I am wondering about putting this into real implementation at
>>> future
>>> > > > deployments in India.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Best regards,
>>> > > > Ankur Verma
>>> > >
>>>
>>>
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