Recently I came across a news item which said that The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $150 million to expand mobile phone coverage in rural areas in India. This is good news indeed. The agency has decided to fund the construction of 17,100 more cell towers to strengthen mobile phone coverage in the Subcontinent. In spite of drastic growth in telecommunication sector, we suffer from a critical lack of communication infrastructure in rural areas. Its sad to learn that out of 600,000 villages in the country, about 7 per cent do not even have landline phone connections.