Intel to provide telecom access stations
07-AUG-2008 Intellasia | Bernama
Aug 7, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM
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Intel Vietnam will provide public telecom access stations in the country's rural areas under a programme that aims to "connect communities".
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Vietnam Public-Utility Telecommunication Service Fund (VTF) under the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications and Intel Vietnam in Hanoi to deploy the "Connected Communities" programme.
The two sides will build programmes that encourage authorities and organisations in rural areas to use IT tools and solutions, the Vietnam news agency reported quoting the memorandum as saying here.
VTF will co-organise with Intel's technicians to create a set of tools in order to promote and launch telecom access stations in isolated areas.
Intel promised that it will introduce standard technical models so as to launch low cost access stations that are affordable for the majority of Vietnamese household budgets.
Addressing the signing ceremony, deputy minister of Information and Telecommunications Tran Duc Lai said the programme will help boost the development and application of IT and telecommunications and narrow digital divide as well as bring technological advances to people in rural and isolated areas.
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