Business Standard, July 16, 2003 -- "Affordable calls for rural India -- The ‘Gramphone’ experiment in Andhra Pradesh has demonstrated enough critical mass for DoT policy makers and BSNL to scale up the trial Village telephony has been a bugbear for telecom policy makers in India..." Click here for full article


Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad Edition, Sept 14, 2002 -- "This is no fantasy land but reality in the form of rural telephony which has changed the lifestyle of the villagers to a major extent. And the concept that has worked wonders for these simple villagers is also nothing new ..." Click here for full article


Deccan Herald, Bangalore Edition, Sept 29, 2002 -- "About 70 per cent of the households of Kalleda village, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh, have phones in their homes and 50 per cent of Dalit homes are connected thanks to the experiment that involves sharing of a single phone line by four households, a concept that was used by the USA and Europe about 100 years ago .." Click here for full article


Business Standard, Delhi Edition, Sept 16, 2002 -- "Gram-phone looks like a winner ..." Click here for full article

The Telegraph, Calcutta Edition, Sept 15, 2002 -- "Imagine unlimited incoming calls and 30 free outgoing calls for a paltry sum of Rs 12.50 per month. Unbelievable as it may sound, the offer exists ..." Click here for full article


Business Line, Sept 14, 2002 -- "This is Gram-phone with a difference which has helped increase the tele-density of a small bustling backward village in Andhra Pradesh to a whopping 70 percent and is offered at a paltry Rs 12.50; ..." Click here for full article


Ice-World Business-Standard, Sept 14, 2002 -- "Tech Talk: Josey Puliyenthuruthel -- A phone for Rs 12.50 a month. The Rural Telecom Foundation's 'gram phone' in Andhra Pradesh delivers dial tones cheaply to India's poor. Some five months ago, we discussed the sorry state of rural telephony in India (Tech Talk, April 24). I revisit the topic today with interesting news from the Andhra Pradesh hinterland. ..." Click here for full article


The Hindu, Sept 14, 2002 -- "Imagine unlimited incoming calls and 30 free outgoing calls for a paltry sum of Rs 12.50 per month. Unbelievable as it may sound, the offer exists ..." Click here for full article


Press Trust of India/Newstime, Sept 14, 2002 -- "Gram-phone signals revolution in Naxal hotbed. At a first glance this remote vilage in backaward Telengana region looks no different from the vast swathe of rural India. It looks unlikely ground for a telecom revolution. But this village ..." Click here for full article


Vartha Telugu Edition, Sept 14, 2002

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Andhra Bhoomi Telugu Edition, Sept 14, 2002

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