Microsoft wants to bring cheap broadband to 500,000 Indian villages
Sep28
on September 28, 2015
at 6:45 am
At a dinner hosted in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company wants to help bring internet access to 500,000 villages across India. Last November, the company began experimenting with the unused spectrum between TV channels, known as ‘white space‘, to provide internet services to a a school in the Srikakulam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It’s now extended its pilot testing to the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Nadella said Microsoft plans to work with the central and state governments to bring connectivity using…
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