With barely 24 hours ahead of the big launch of the Digital India week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, #NetNeutrality activists are once again at it with a campaign to mislead and provoke based on half baked facts. So what is the truth of this so called DoT Panel Report on “Net Neutrality” and the claims…
The telecom department’s much-awaited report on ‘net neutrality’ is said to have recommended disallowing the controversial zero rating plans of telcos while proposing that throttling and any sort of prioritisation of Internet traffic should be banned by the government. “There should be no paid prioritisation which creates discrimination and no degradation of traffic on the…
In his own words, Ravishankar Said, “Report of net neutrality will be out soon. But as I said in the Parliament, I will have to wait TRAI report also. We are expecting that the RBI will give license for payment bank to the Department of Post by August.” We all know about the net neutrality…
The Narendra Modi government’s Digital India claim and programme — following on the heels of Make in India and Skill India — is three-pronged. One, it aims to build infrastructure and provide the internet as a utility to every citizen. Two, it promises to improve service delivery by making services available online. And three, it…
DataWind, a provider of low cost internet connectivity and wireless web access products, announced that the company will provide free unlimited internet browsing for one year on all its devices. The free internet browsing will be made available on the Reliance Communications GSM network to all new customers. To celebrate the launch of free internet…
A scheme to link India’s 2.5 lakh villages with better internet connectivity is likely to be announced when Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off a Rs 1 lakh crore programme on Wednesday aimed at wiping out India’s digital divide. Preparations are in full swing for the Prime Minister to launch the week-long programme — Digital…
Facebook has rolled out a new version of its app for Android phones in India that is aimed at users with slow and spotty network connections. The app, Facebook Lite, has been available in Europe since it was launched on June 4. It is a lighter version – with a size of just 430 KB…
In order to efficiently manage land acquisition, which is often complex and holds the key to its ambitious 1 billion tonne production target, Coal India Ltd is considering a monitoring system that will track development and information related to the process at its projects. The land monitoring system, which will be part of its project…
Kanakasabapathy Pandyan remembers the parties. Quite vividly. Long evenings, endless chatter and glass-in-hand (always) parties. Held at Vijay Mukhi’s sprawling apartment on Nepean Sea Road, south Bombay. Mukhi was a technology evangelist back then, a man who loved his computer more than anything else in the world. So it was only natural that he had…
As the district administration gears up to be part of the nationwide call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a ‘Digital India’ and ensure that at least one person in every household is digitally literate, it is yet to address the problem of inadequate internet connectivity in the district. The campaign will be marked…