Rural broadband player AirJaldi and education startup Zaya Learning Labs are recipients of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative grants from India, the company announced on its blog. Microsoft started the Affordable Access Initiative last November bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets around the world. Microsoft added that it is taking learnings from their TV White…
Does it matter how many “likes” does your Facebook post gather when you are a powerful politician? Or how many followers do you have on Twitter? It does in India. Dozens of parliamentarians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have recently been chastised by their leadership for not being active enough on the Net.…
Microsoft has largely stood by as other technology giants like Facebook and Google have begun work on grand plans for balloons, satellites, drones, simplified apps and even bicycle hot spots to deliver Internet access to the four billion or so people around the world who are not yet online.
Rolling out of 4G infrastructure is critical for higher internet speed in India, global financial services firm Morgan Stanley said in a report. “We expect 90 percent of users in India to access the Internet through mobile by 2020. Hence, availability of pan-India 3G and 4G mobile network becomes critical for Internet speeds,” the report…
Over the top (OTT) has come up in a big way in India. The technology that refers to the delivery of audio and video over the internet, has opened up a completely new way for operators to generate revenue from VoD, catch-up TV, and interactive applications. In an exclusive interaction with CXOtoday, Vincent Low, Director, Product Marketing, Media, Akamai…
The Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has grown increasingly focused on giving more people access to the Internet, but the majority of the country’s citizens are still offline. Nearly 1 billion people in India are yet to connect to the Internet,according to a World Bank report. As of 2014, India’s population was…
NarendraModi led present NDA government seems very serious about digitization plan of the country and is making all the right moves in the direction. The latest in the list of ‘Digital India’ plan, is a project that will be commissioned to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by…
A typical internet day today across the world includes 2.2 billion GB of web traffic, 207 billion e-mails sent, 8.8 billion YouTube videos watched, 4.2 billionGoogle searches conducted and 803 million tweets sent. The World Bank’s Digital Dividends report indicates that despite being a connected world, 2 billion people still do not have a mobile…
The government plans to provide mobile connectivity in 55,669 villages by March 2019 in a phased manner. It will also commission a project to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by September 2017, a note prepared by Department of Telecom (DoT) about the progress made during the last…
BENGALURU: Google today announced the launch of its free high-speed public Wi-Fi service at Ujjain, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati and Allahabad railway stations. This is in continuation with its project to provide high-speed public Wi-Fi service at 100 Railway stations across India by end of the year, Google said in a release. Minister of Railways Suresh…