Nokia – one of the world’s leading mobile phone supplier plans to take up the initiative – Nokia Life Tools, for rural India. The initiative is to launch the handsets available at the price of Rs 1000.

Similarly, Finnish Telecom also plans to launch the limited number of mobile handsets but at the price of Rs 500.

The company, which has been selling phones under micro-finance in select rural markets, might just make a breakthrough in rural India’s mobile telephony.