The growing smartphone numbers and Internet access trends (140 million smartphones estimated to grow to 500 million by 2020, 300 million Internet users growing rapidly) indicate that ‘Digital’ has become a significant part of consumer behaviour in India, and the propensity to go digital is increasing day-by-day. E-commerce organisations have leveraged this digital wave quite…
Bharti Enterprises today said that it has acquired a minority stake in OneWeb consortium to provide affordable Internet for rural markets. Bharti Airtel will be a preferred distributor of OneWeb service in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa. As one of the founding members of OneWeb, Bharti will have representation on the board of the…
With an aim to enable affordable broadband for rural and underdeveloped locations in India, the country’s business conglomerate Bharti has acquired a minority stake in OneWeb, which plans to offer communication services using satellites by 2019. “The dream of fully bridging the digital divide is on track to be a reality in 2019,” said Greg…
A digital revolution is underway in India (proliferation of smartphones, and growing digital savviness of Indian consumers). Considering this, it becomes critical for retailers in India especially the organized retailers to understand the growing digital influence on shoppers. While a lot is said about shopping online i.e. e-commerce (which forms <1% of overall retail purchases),…
Taking forward one of his marquee projects, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inaugurate the Digital India week on Wednesday. The event will be attended by some of the top corporate leaders of the country including Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani, Cyrus Mistry, chairman of Tata Sons, Wipro’s Azim Premji and Anil Agarwal of the Vedanta group among…
There are around 5 billion connected devices in the world, which are expected to grow to 26 billion by 2020 as internet of things (IoT) gains traction, says an estimate by technology major Ericsson. The growth would be led by growing number of smart devices run on digital platforms with sensors and radio frequency identities.…
As the government makes a fresh bid to push the Digital India programme, which has been snagged with delays in the National Optic Fibre Network (NoFN) and other hurdles, experts said various issues like working out the revenue model, work flow automation, creating an ecosystem for it and others would have to be addressed to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known for attracting top corporates and investors to support his events and the mega-launch ofDigital India plan in the national capital on July 1 is going to be no different. Going by the plan, around 400 top CEOs, including Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry,Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji,…
The Government’s ambitious “Digital India” plan aims to digitally connect all of India’s villages and gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. By the year 2019, the ‘Digital India’ program of the Government of India (GOI), envisages that 250,000 Indian villages will enjoy broadband connectivity, and universal…
A report in India suggests SVoD platform Netflix will launch in the Asian territory before 2016. Citing unnamed sources, the Times of India reported the US-based platform had “firmed up plans” to enter territory, a move that was concerning local DTH players. Should Netflix launch in India, it would be the second American-owned SVOD service…