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“Digital India,” a $16 billion initiative to make digital services available to all Indian citizens within the next five years, is among the top initiatives of the Narendra Modi government, along [...]

In an announcement timed to coincide with India Prime MInister Narendra Modi’s visit to its headquarters, Google reiterated that it is launching what it says is the largest public Wi-Fi hotspot [...]

Some 4.2 billion people do not regularly use the Internet. In the least developed countries, only about 10 percent of the population regularly is online. For obvious reasons, policymakers and [...]

Telenor India says it now is talking with other mobile operators about sharing spectrum. “We are in initial stage discussions with all operators on spectrum trading,” said Telenor India CEO [...]

Thailand’s Total Access Communication (DTAC) has announced the roll-out of what it calls the industry’s widest spectrum bandwidth to provide commercial fourth-generation (4G) service. [...]

Some 4.2 billion people globally do not have regular access to the Internet, according to the United Nations Broadband Commission. How fast that divide can be effectively erased is the issue. [...]

Mobile operators in the highly-competitive mobile market, no less than operators in other markets, know that Internet access revenues now are the growth driver, not voice. So it comes as no [...]

The Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) Spectrum Futures conference, examining the role of spectrum-based services to provide Internet access to the people of South Asia and Southeast [...]

Indian telecom service providers and tower companies are primarily responsible for the deteriorating quality of service, including call drops, an ETTelecom poll finds. Perhaps the only surprise [...]

Indian Railways and Google will create a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots at 400 railway stations across the country. As planned, the hotspot access will be provided free of cost after validation [...]

Standards battles are commonplace in the computing and communications business, given the business advantage firms believe–and sometimes do obtain–from getting their favored proposals [...]

As expected, Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio Infocomm will announce a finalized deal to share mobile spectrum supporting fourth generation networks (4G) over most of India. The deal will [...]

You often hear is said that “mobile is the Internet.” It happens often to be literally true. Facebook points out that 2.2 million Kenyans now use Facebook every day, and 4.5 million each month. [...]

One theme never too far from the surface, when spectrum sharing in any of its forms was the subject, is the nearly-immediate turn to issues of supply and demand. That was very much the case at [...]

“It may not be obvious that Facebook has anything to say about spectrum,” said Chris Weasler, Facebook and Internet.org global head of spectrum policy and connectivity, at the Pacific [...]