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1532 Rural BroadBand Kiosks - BSNL Gramseva Centres - being opened in Andhra Pradesh under the Scheme titled 'Wire-Line Broadband Connectivity to Rural & Remote Areas'.

Aimed at making information technology work to the advantage of the villagers, the Andhra Pradesh initiative is a part of the pan India plan of BSNL to set up of 30,000 such rural broadband kiosks in the next 3 years. The rural Broadband kiosks allow full triple play (voice, video and data) services to the rural customers. The Broadband kiosks will be linked using ADSL2+ technology at speeds as high as 2 Mbps, which has been covered under the BSNL's rural DSL Broadband project across the country, supported by USOF.

Apart from internet surfing, the kiosks will offer various value added services to the rural populace in form of, utility bill payments, railway ticketing, mobile handsets content download etc. In addition, services of local interest such as agricultural trading, education on crops, micro finance etc will be unique feature of each kiosk. These kiosks shall be established as entertainment and information dissemination hub for the villagers. BSNL Gramseva Centres will be managed by franchisees at the local level for this purpose. This project is expected to help the nation to spread the broadband/internet knowledge at the rural India doorsteps. With saving of money and time for villagers, these kiosks shall help in improving the rural lifestyle and bringing prosperity in rural India.

The project is being supported by USO fund of Department of Telecommunications in form of subsidy for setting up and operating these kiosks.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited – BSNL is India's largest integrated Telecommunications Company providing a comprehensive range of telecom services in India: wire line, CDMA Mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VOIP Services, IN services etc. BSNL has setup a world class multi-gigabit, multi protocol convergent IP backbone infrastructure.

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