Google today announced that it will provide high-speed public Wi-Fi in 400 train stations across India.
The news comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Google's Mountain View headquarters to champion his Digital India initiative, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.
In collaboration with Indian Railways—operator of one of the world's largest railway networks—and RailTel—provider of Internet service RailWire via its fiber network—Google's Access and Energy teamaims to bring the first stations online "in the coming months" and 100 by the end of 2016, according to Pichai.
"Even with just the first 100 stations online, this project will make Wi-Fi available for the more than 10 million people who pass through every day," Pichai wrote. "This will rank it as the largest public Wi-Fi project in India, and among the largest in the world, by number of potential users."
Pichai promised "many times faster" access than existing connections in India, allowing travelers to stream a high-definition video, research their destination, or download a book or game while they wait for the next train.
"Best of all, the service will be free to start, with the long-term goal of making it self-sustainable to allow for expansion to more stations and other places …
Why India? Even though "there are now more Internet users in India than in every country in the world aside from China... there are still nearly one billion people in India who aren't online," Pichai said.
India is one of the countries where Google is rolling out Android One, which provides low-cost Android phones to people in developing countries. "To help address the challenges of limited bandwidth, we recently launched a feature that makes mobilewebpages load faster and with less data, and we've made YouTube available offline with offline Maps coming soon," Pichai said today.
Non-English-speaking Indians, meanwhile, can tap into the Indian Language Internet Alliance, which offers Hindi Voice Search, an improved Hindi keyboard, and support for seven local languages.
"Just like I did years ago, thousands of young Indians walk through Chennai Central every day, eager to learn, to explore and to seek opportunity," Pichai wrote. "It's my hope that this Wi-Fi project will make all these things a little easier."
The news comes as Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was at the United Nations last week calling for universal Internet access by 2020. Facebook is also offering low-cost devices to developing countries via Internet.org (now known as Free Basics). But the effort drew net neutrality complaints in India for offering free access to only a select few apps. Facebook later opened up the program to anyone who could develop low-bandwidth apps.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2015/09/bringing-the-internet-to-more-indians.html
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The news comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Google's Mountain View headquarters to champion his Digital India initiative, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.
In collaboration with Indian Railways—operator of one of the world's largest railway networks—and RailTel—provider of Internet service RailWire via its fiber network—Google's Access and Energy team
"Even with just the first 100 stations online, this project will make Wi-Fi available for the more than 10 million people who pass through every day," Pichai wrote. "This will rank it as the largest public Wi-Fi project in India, and among the largest in the world, by number of potential users."
"Best of all, the service will be free to start, with the long-term goal of making it self-sustainable to allow for expansion to more stations and other places
Why India? Even though "there are now more Internet users in India than in every country in the world aside from China
India is one of the countries where Google is rolling out Android One, which provides low-cost Android phones to people in developing countries. "To help address the challenges of limited bandwidth, we recently launched a feature that makes mobile
Non-English-speaking Indians, meanwhile, can tap into the Indian Language Internet Alliance, which offers Hindi Voice Search, an improved Hindi keyboard, and support for seven local languages.
"Just like I did years ago, thousands of young Indians walk through Chennai Central every day, eager to learn, to explore and to seek opportunity," Pichai wrote. "It's my hope that this Wi-Fi project will make all these things a little easier."
The news comes as Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was at the United Nations last week calling for universal Internet access by 2020. Facebook is also offering low-cost devices to developing countries via Internet.org (now known as Free Basics). But the effort drew net neutrality complaints in India for offering free access to only a select few apps. Facebook later opened up the program to anyone who could develop low-bandwidth apps.
SOURCE:
http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2015/09/bringing-the-internet-to-more-indians.html
http://in.pcmag.com/
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