India to offer Free Broadband to everyone by 2009

[mandy]

The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.

You have heard of free municipal broadband — many cities in the US have drenched themselves in wireless broadband connectivity which is freely accessible to residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal...

full article: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Broa...955351.cms

[amy]

The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009

Free broadband is nice but its rather useless when you consider that there are several hundred million people in India who can't afford a computer and won't be able to take advantage of it.