Case Study: Connecting Rural India to the Net: The Challenges of Using VSAT

["Irfan Khan" <khania@super.net.pk>]

Case Study: Connecting Rural India to the Internet: The Challenges of Using 
VSAT Technology 

26 February 2001


In its goal to connect rural India to the Internet and promote livelihood 
generation through e-commerce and access to information, TARAhaat.com faced 
the fundamental problem: connecting rural villages to the World Wide Web in 
the first place. Many villages in the Bundelkhand region where TARAhaat is 
in its pilot phase do not have access to telephone lines. The quality of 
the lines reaching other villages is not sufficient to transmit data. 
TARAhaat therefore had to come up with an alternative if it was to achieve 
its mission: that alternative was the use of VSAT (Very Small Aperture 
Terminal) technology.


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