Reiterating its commitment to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative, global printer and personal computer major HP announced it was bolstering its participation to digitally transform the country. The company is looking to “strengthen” three key digital pillars — creation of digital infrastructure, facilitating digital literacy and delivering services digitally — in…
Internet can bring the actual revolution empowering millions in rural areas by connecting to the mainstream in India. Connecting rural India will provide the essential bond between urban and rural India. It is certain in relaying the benefits of a digital economy to the largest part of the country. It will strengthen in providing education,…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) expects to finalise its view on net neutrality in “a couple of months”. “DoT has sought a comprehensive view from us on net neutrality. It should be done in a couple of months,” TRAI Chairman R.S. Sharma said on the sidelines of an event of the CASBAA India…
Google may be the world’s biggest Internet company, but Rajan Anandan, the head of its India operation, says he’s become just as focused on what users are doing offline. His team has led Google’s push into apps that can download data for later use without an active mobile connection. One helps people navigate New Delhi…
This refers to The Indian Express editorial dated March 17, 2016, under the heading ‘Here’s lookin’ at you’, inter alia suggesting that the minister is seeking power to restrict communications or to track them. While I fully respect your editorial independence, let me say this with conviction that the views expressed in this editorial are…
What if I told you that a hundred thousand San Franciscans, including thousands of public school students did not have electricity or water at home? I imagine many of you would be appalled and call for our government to step in and help. Now, substitute the Internet for water and electricity. Would you still be…
NEW DELHI: The government has asked the telecom regulator to submit recommendations on net neutrality, as it gears up to finalise the policy on this controversial issue. “We have received a letter from DoT (telecom department) on making recommendations on net neutralityas whole, and we will shortly float a consultation paper on it,” Trai Chairman…
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – According to a Pew Research Center poll, as of 2015 only 22 percent of India’s adults had internet access. Despite hosting an enormous population, much of India is without internet access, which prompted the Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS) to conduct a study. The study took place…
Indian officials today flatly denied Facebook’s plan to offer free access to stripped-down, popular websites — including, of course, the popular website known as Facebook — and, in so doing, disbanded a Facebook–Indian telecom firm partnership that had already been put into practice. Facebook’s Internet.org project has been controversial from the start and its Free…
Facebook has rubbed India’s telecom regulator up the wrong way in its quest to provide free Internet. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in a letter published on Tuesday accused the social media company of turning a public debate on Net neutrality “into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll.” The TRAI in December began…