Bharti Airtel has strongly defended its under-fire Airtel Zero scheme, saying it doesn’t violate the concept of a free Internet and is just an option for customers to access apps for free, with the ultimate aim being to get more people onto the Web. In a letter to chief executives of companies and Airtel employees,…
TRAI on Friday reiterated the plan to have a minimum speed of 2Mbps on broadband for 600 million users in the country by 2020 as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative. The plan also envisages that a speed of 100 mbps will be made available on demand. TRAI’s latest recommendations suggest…
The battle for net neutrality – the principle that all traffic travelling across the Internet should be treated equally at all stages – isn’t over. There’s good news, for example, ecommerce bluechip Flipkart publicly changing its stand on net neutrality. But profound dangers remain. The very strength of Internet – it’s a vast global network…
US-based technology giant VMware today said it plans to hire about 500 people for its India operations by the end of this year. The company also extended support to the Digital India initiative of Narendra Modi government. The firm also inaugurated a new campus in Bengaluru, which also houses the R&D centre, with an investment…
India is mulling over setting up a National eHealth Authority (NeHA) for standardisation, storage and exchange of electronic health records of patients as part of the government’s Digital India programme. The authority, to be set up by an Act of Parliament will work on the integration of multiple health IT systems in a way that…
The changes within Mindtree are helping them prepare for the future essentially for the next three-to-five year period, says CEO Krishnakumar Natarajan. The Bengaluru-based Mindtree, for the last 15 years, has performed well as one of the promising mid-sized IT services players in the country. To gear up itself for the future, the company recently…
The political class jumped into the burning issue of net neutrality with Parliamentarians Tathagata Satpathy and Rajeev Chandrasekhar saying that any move to allow telecom operators to charge subscribers separately for using some apps would restrict people’s access to internet and go against the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India. In a recent letter to…
The ‘Digital India’ campaign of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government will be a game-changer for the digital technology revolution in the country with the plan being to cover 100 crore people under the endeavour by 2020, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today. India has also put in place adequate safeguards to ensure that digital…