I was too lazy to come up with a headline, so decided to reuse the heading of the article I wrote in 2012 “Will India see an Internet inflection point by 2014?“. Reliance Industries is going to be investing in a big way at home, in India – $30 billion over the next 3 years! In yesterday’s Reliance AGM few announcements made that would interest the internet industry in India are,
Way back in 2009 I had written India needs a Minister for Internet, now we have a Prime Minister who believes in the internet, especially in social media. We do hope his new policies will give a big boost to the internet industry. Moreover, PM Modi may give a big boost to the usage of Indian languages, especially Hindi.
Unfortunately, the government’s National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN) project is going slow, the projections for this year have been halved.
We eagerly wait to see this rolling out. 65% of India’s population is below the age of 35. This kind of sudden increase in broadband penetration is a big boost to Indian language portals (to be read as Oneindia.in !)
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