The Indian government is stepping up efforts to provide free WiFi to
1,050 villages across the country under a new pilot project known as
Digital Village.
Over the next six months, each village will get its own WiFi hotspot
mounted on a special tower to which villagers can connect using their
cell phones.
Global tech firms and Indian internet providers are racing to grab a
piece of the country's unconnected population of more than 900 million
people.
Aruna Sundararajan, an official at the Indian Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology says ''the program aims to provide basic
development services to rural areas using digital technology'.
According to the Indian government, the initial phase of the new program
costs around $62 million and It will eventually be extended to other
parts of the country.
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