According to the press release from White House, Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution, President Obama has signed a memorandum in support of freeing up 500 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband services. Wireless internet is being taken very seriously by the current US administration to increase the internet usage in the US. The […]
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Get ready for surge in internet user base: Wireless Broadband
Indian has currently 9 million broadband subscribers. Currently only 8 people in 1,000 have broadband access in India. Pathetically low penetration. Will wireless broadband change this? I think it will. The Indian government has mopped Rs 38,543.31 crore ($8.25 billion) from Broadband Wireless Access (BWA). The two circles of Delhi and Mumbai together accounted for […]
PC sales in India up by 26% in Q3, but what about broadband?
Some encouraging numbers of PC sales in India (ET) for Oct-Dec 2009 quarter, 25.7% yearly growth in PC sales (compared to Oct-Dec 2008) HP (16.2%) leads the race, followed by Dell (13.6%) and Acer (10.4%) Desktop market share: HP, HCL, Acer Notebook market share: Dell, HP Of the total 1.97m units sold, desktop account for […]
Can the government push languages on the net? No!
India’s premier industry body Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has submitted their recommendations to the Telecom Minister. More about this can be read on Medianama. I was surprised to see a note about languages, CII has suggested that the government ensure digitisation of music, video and film industry content in different Indian languages so there […]
Elections: New Mantra – Roti, Kapda, Makaan aur Broadband
It is that time of the year in India – it is legal for every political party to make false promises. General Election 2009 is heating up. Political parties have started releasing their manifesto. BJP was the first party to announce their intention to make broadband available to “everyone” at Rs 200. This means there […]