Intel to power wireless internet access for Parintins in Brazil

US based tech giant Intel has said that they would be investing in a project to build a wireless network in the Brazil town of Parintins.

This network would bring high-speed internet access to the Amazon rain forest community.

This project is part of the company’s “World Ahead Program” through which they aim to accelerate Internet and computer access in developing countries. Intel is spending close to around a billion US dollars in this initiative.

Parintins Mayor Frank Bi Garcia said in a release on this new development: “We’ve been blessed with this project. We’re really isolated and don’t have the conditions to receive the Internet with cables. Access to wireless Internet is a great pleasure for us. This project will prepare this generation for the future.”

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett added: “Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins. It is now a place where wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging and the world’s libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat.”