India's poor tap into video e-mail technology
October 3, 1998
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Her face hidden behind a colorful veil, an illiterate woman stepped in front of a computer screen in a remote Indian rural district.
Chameli Devi's eyes widened in amazement in the booth at the small public telephone office in Jaunpur Friday when she saw and heard her husband, Ram Singh, deliver a message he had recorded earlier from a similar phone booth 1,240 kilometers (770 miles) away in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay).
The couple inaugurated the world's first commercial video e-mail, a facility developed by the National Association of Software and Service Companies, that will eventually enable millions of poor, illiterate people to communicate cheaply, said Dewang Mehta, NASSCOM's executive director..........
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