Recall the television advertisement of a cell-phone company where people of a village used to travel to a nearby city to recharge their cell-phones. Yes, there are still many villages in India which do not have power connectivity. As a result those villages are still out of mobile network.
But those days are over when villages didn’t have mobile base station because of lack of power. A Haryana based company “VNL” has come with a new technology where a mobile base station can be setup using solar charged cells. Only 50-150W power is required for the smooth functioning of the station. One such station can provide service to hundreds of users. A group of such base stations feeds signal to a large VNL station which relays signal to main network. The main large based station is also solar powered. Not only power-friendly, the new system is also pocket-friendly. A calculation says if a customer pays $2 per month on average, the system can run in profit where as the conventional system requires a customer to spend $6 per month to stay in profit.
A series of such base stations have already been installed in some remote villages of Rajasthan, where thousands of villagers have tasted the mobile service for the first time in their life. Apart from the huge number of un-electrified Indian Villages, the company is also eyeing on the African Market for their product.
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