Solar Power Mobile Phones in India

Posted by: Prem Kumar on Jul 28, 2010 Print PDF

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Prem Kumar

 

Vodafone Essar Ltd. unveiled a solar-powered mobile phone Tuesday that it hopes will appeal to India's rural masses who lack electricity.

India has been adding close to 20 million mobile subscribers each month, but many are in rural areas where electricity supply can be patchy at best. A third of Indians don't have access to electric power, but they do get plenty of sun.Samsung, which launched a solar-powered handset about a year ago, and now Vodafone are trying to bridge the infrastructure gap.

"This launch is likely to enable more people in rural India to go mobile and thus increase penetration from the current 20 percent," Vodafone Essar chief executive Marten Pieters said in a statement.
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