The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy program for the poor to include internet access.
The FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, has emphasized that internet access is a critical component of modern life, key education, communication and finding a keeping a job.
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India tops a list of the world’s major economies for the greatest share of Internet traffic happening on smartphones and the country’s online shopping companies see a greater share of shoppers transacting on smartphones than even China, data collated by technology analyst Mary Meeker in her latest Internet Trends report showed. Of all the Internet…
Visitors to Shimla Summer Festival will be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi internet during the festival from May 31 to June 7, deputy mayor Tikender Singh Panwar said on Saturday. The facility is being provided on pilot basis and to gauge the hill town’s readiness for later providing Wi-Fi Internet connectivity across the city as…
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband. According to a report in the New York Times last week, the FCC believes that the subsidy programme, named Lifeline, will be in line with its view…
According to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, annual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will quadruple between 2014 and 2019. Factors expected to drive traffic growth include increase in consumption of mobile data, proliferation in number of networked devices (from 1.1 billion in 2014 to 1.6 billion in 2019), faster broadband speeds (average…
The World Wide Web marked its 25th anniversary on March 11, an important milestone when we consider how technology has impacted our lives and how it will shape our future. How fast the world has changed. According to Pew Research, 42% of adults in the US had never heard of the internet in 1995, and…
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report is considered to be the gospel for the tech world. A veteran Internet analyst and a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meeker has released her much anticipated 2015 edition of the report. As has been customary in recent years, Meeker introduced the report at the…
HOOQ, Asia’s video-on-demand service provider, has announced that it will kick off its services in India from June for just Rs 199 a month. HOOQ, a start-up joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros, allows customers to enjoy unlimited online streaming access and an offline viewing option on Hollywood and Indian movies…
Google has put on hold plans to provide free data to end users in India by zero rating certain apps, due to recent public backlash against a similar initiative by Facebook and Airtel, two people familiar with the development said. The Internet giant, which was in early discussions with telecom operators and applications developers to…
Mary Meeker’s legendary annual Internet Trends report is here. For her 2015 report, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers executive has focused separately on India and China as the two leading Internet markets. Meeker fancies India for its unique mobile Internet dominated ecosystem and highlights three key areas – smartphones, global apps, and mobile e-commerce…