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(SARI) Project We have examined longitudinally an ICT for development project in rural India, closely watching activities and surveying users at as many as 100 Internet facil-ities in more than 50 different villages. The Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project in Tamil Nadu, India, enjoyed many successes, including palpable—albeit localized—social and economic development impacts as well as the incubation of an—albeit inconsistently—celebrated ICT for develop-ment start-up company (n-Logue Communications Pvt. Ltd.). Ultimately, how-ever, the SARI project did not sustain itself. In the particular outcomes re-ported here, we follow the prospects of 36 private telecenters which were opened at various times between November 2001 and February 2004. By May 2005, 32 of these 36 telecenters had closed. However, in the same time pe-riod, most of 42 telecenters in the same area that were opened and run by a local NGO continued to function. We provide a comparative analysis betwee