Reliance Infocomm Ltd has been awarded Georgraphic Information Systems award for using this technology extensively while setting up its utility infrastructure for providing basic and wireless telecommunication services in more than 600 cities and towns in the country.

The award has been instituted by the Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions, a non-government body engaged in promotion of GIS and its usage in various development activities.

A Ramanathan, vice president, projects, Reliance Infocomm Ltd, received the award from Dr M P Narayanan, chairman CSDMS, during the ongoing MAP India conference in New Delhi.

Reliance Infocomm has laid out more than 60,000 km of broad band capable fibre optics networks, one of the biggest in the world using GIS mapping technologies. The company has used one metre resolution satellite images for laying the network.

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