One would expect that pricing of Internet access to farmers would be highly subsidized, and not as expensive as cybercafes: the Agriculture Department of Andhra Pradesh is running pilot programmes ... Continue_Reading

(By Diwaskar Chettri & Preethi J) 561 out of 1159 Common Service Centres (CSC) are non operational in Haryana and 133 in Tripura: and the reasons are growing. First, it was ... Continue_Reading

Pan-India roll outs of common service centres (CSCs) is facing a roadblock due to lack of funds and inadequate monitoring, causing existing centres to become non-operational. CSCs are Internet connected kiosks ... Continue_Reading

An addition of 12.05 million GSM and CDMA wireless connections were registered in June, with the maximum additions seen in Bihar, which added more than 10 lakh connections in the ... Continue_Reading

Updated with COAI’s pre-budget memorandum. The General Budget for the year ahead 2009-10 will be announced on July 6th, and prior to the announcement, demands are pouring in to help the ... Continue_Reading

– The dates for the auctioneer selection process, for the agency that is going to handle the e-auction for 3G and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA Spectrup) have been revised. Details ... Continue_Reading

During the Union Budget speech a few months ago, the Finance Minister mentioned that the government had allocated Rs. 75 crores would be allocated towards the setting up of Common ... Continue_Reading