[UgaBYTES] Mobile Broadband to Enhance Economic and Social Development in the Amazon

[Mwathi Francis]

FROM CELLULAR-NEWS <http://www.cellular-news.com>: More than 30,000 people
in 175 Amazon villages will get access to e-health and e-education services
through mobile broadband. Ericsson and mobile network operator, Vivo are
part of a group that will bring mobile broadband connectivity to the
Amazonian state of Pará in Brazil.

Among other applications, the project will implement the mobile survey tool
that will be used to monitor environmental impacts, diagnose patients,
facilitate communication with the communities, and run studies to monitor
the life quality index.

A recent research by Deloitte shows that a 10 percent increase in mobile
penetration leads to a 1.2 percent increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
in developing countries. Read on <http://www.ugabytes.org/nod/?q=node/648>




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