Over the past two years since he became the Communications and Information Technology Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad has cleared a lot of pending work in his Ministry, even though people termed him a ‘call drop Minister’. Prasad, who will be completing two years in office on May 26, shares withBusinessLine how the telecom, postal, IT…
Indore : By the end of this year, people of Indore district, particularly those living in panchayats, would be able to get high-speed internet and online services under e-Governance as laying of optical fiber cable (OFC) is going on at full tilt. In future, all 170 services, scheduled to be delivered online under e-Governance would…
Four Hindu priests sat cross-legged on the floor in front of silver trays of rice, flowers and vermillion powder, chanting in low baritones that reverberated off the bare walls of the old brick temple. An iPhone propped on a chair captured the service — known as a puja — and beamed it via Skype to…
CHENNAI: Indian Railway’s arm Railtel, which provides internet services via its extensive fibre network along with Google announced the launch of free high-speed public Wi-Fi service at nine new railway stations. After the maiden launch at Mumbai Central, users in Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Ranchi, Raipur, Vijayawada, Kacheguda (Hyderabad), Ernakulum Jn (Kochi) and Vishakhapatnam, will be…
India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market, in terms of subscribers. Voice services have seen consistent growth over the past decade—fuelled by a service that addressed the need of Indians to talk to each other. While they continue to talk, the Indian subscriber is now demanding quality access to the internet for various information…
The country needs programmes for increasing digital literacy in rural areas, and just providing internet access would not be enough, claims a study conducted by a professor of Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedbad (IIMA). The study, titled, ‘Factors Influencing Outcome Expectations and Self-Efficacy in Driving Internet Use in Rural India’, by Rekha Jain, professor of…
If we look at the present scenario, the world is being raised on the internet. No one could have said it better when Eric Schmidt said, “Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” And it is this anarchy which…
JAMMU: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in an RTI reply has admitted that it has received over 5,000 complaints from mobile subscribers across the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In an RTI reply to the information seeker RTI activist Raman Sharma the DGM(CM) cum Public Information Officer of the BSNL informed that during 11 months’…
NEW DELHI: Google has extended free internet service through WiFi to 10 railway stations as part of its tie up with Railtel, the internet provider arm of Indian Railways. After the first launch at Mumbai Central last year, the high speed wireless broadband service now covers stations in Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Ranchi, Raipur, Vijayawada, Kacheguda…
After India said ‘no’ to Free Basics and opted for net neutrality recently, the social networking giantFacebook has unveiled two new initiatives to improve internet services for the rural population in the developing countries, including India.