Estimating connectivity in Rural India

TRAI has initiated actions in the right direction by creating an exhaustive list of all the villages in India and has recently created a format for collecting information from Service Providers in order to estimate the available connectivity (Coaxial Cable, Optical Fiber Connectivity, Wire line and Wireless) in Rural Areas. The Major Telecom operators in India provide Mobile and Broadband services. Considering characteristics like coverage, ease of deployment and cost, a decent mix of technologies like optic fibre, WiMax and 3G should help mobile and broadband penetration increase many folds in the rural India.