To make India truly digital, target the poor, not rich

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 that high-speed internet access is on a par with other essential services for the well-being of the poor such as education, food and housing.
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