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84% Of Rural India Not Aware Of Internetcomst
Sep 13, 2010
NEW DELHI: A seven-state survey that tracked rural internet awareness shows that about 84% were ignorant of the medium's existence. Of those who make use of the net, 85% access
Rural India remains beyond reach of Internet: studyo
Sep 13, 2010
Barely one percent of rural Indians use the Internet, a new study has calculated, despite a rapid recent boom in web access across the country.
About 5.4 million of an estimated
Internet Use Jumps in Rural India
Sep 07, 2012
Turn off the highway
May 03, 2011
Aloke Biswas (27) from Siliguri in West Bengal is a typical example of the tech-savvy generation. He orders his mobile handset from an Internet shopping site to get a discount.
45 m people use Internet in their local languages
Jan 09, 2013
Despite the immense growth of Internet usage, the penetration still remains low because of three major factors — lack of infrastructure, beliefs, and lack of knowledge.
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Harvesting a database
Feb 22, 2013
Advertisers targeting rural customers pay for a free SMS service providing market rates of agricultural produce.
How would a company that wants to target a certain kind
Sibal’s help sought to speed up national optical fibre project.com
Dec 17, 2012
Pitroda proposes measures to put Rs 20,000-cr plan back on track
NEW DELHI, DEC. 17: The Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation Sam
Mobile commerce catching up in non-urban areas
Aug 15, 2012
Online, purchasing, by mobile phones, up in non-urban and rural areas, Internet penetration, growth in smartphones, tablets, mobile commerce, m-Commerce, take off, India
2G to 3G, Possibilities, Pitfalls and Indic SMS Challenges @ IAMAI Mobile Conference onl
Sep 03, 2009
At the inaugural session at IAMAI conference on Mobile content and services, some of the questions the session tried to contemplate answers to are:
- With the 3G spectrum auctions just around
More efforts to increase broadband penetration.
Oct 05, 2008
In another populist scheme by the Government, the DoT is planning a major
scheme to subsidise the broadband infrastructure in rural India, for which bids
would be invited from both
Internet connectivity on anvil for schools and rural areasht.com
Nov 06, 2008
In his opening address at the National Round Table Conference on 'Telecom Sector in Education Development' the Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology Mr. Thiru A. Raja, today, declared
Two U.S. firms selected for number portability services
Mar 10, 2009
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has selected two US-based companies - Telcordia Technologies and Syniverse Technologies - to provide mobile number portability (MNP) services in India, a government
Study: Net users in India hit 4.5 crorecom st
Jan 30, 2009
According to a recent study by IMRB International and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), active Internet users in India reached 4.53 crore on September 2008. Active Internet
Study: Net users in India hit 4.5 crorecom st
Jan 30, 2009
According to a recent study by IMRB International and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), active Internet users in India reached 4.53 crore on September 2008. Active Internet
Internet penetration in India is pathetic with 45 million usersa hr
Jan 29, 2009
New Delhi, Jan 29, 2009: Internet penetration in India is pathetic with only 45 million users. Out of a 1.1 billion population of India there are only around
47% of internet users in India not sure if it?s useful
Jan 28, 2009
After almost a decade since the internet made its debut in India, close to 47 per cent of the active internet users still don’t know how it can be useful.
Time for Internet to go rural in a big way in Indiao
Jan 27, 2009
3.3 million is not a small figure by any means. This is the number of Internet users in rural India as on March 2008, according to the I-Cube 2008 report
45 Million Internet Users in Indiaoan
Jan 27, 2009
India had as on September 2008 45.3 million active internet users. This is according to the I-Cube [Internet in India] Study released today and conducted annually by IMRB International and
37% per cent of all Internet Access from Cybwer Cafesst
Jan 21, 2009
New Delhi:21 January,2009: In spite of unfavorable regulation and many disincentives, Cyber Cafes continue to be the single largest access point for internet users, accounting being preferred
LG, Hero Honda, Nicholas Piramal to focus on rural marketsht.com
Jan 17, 2009
Spread across 650,000 villages, with an average population of 1,100 rural villagers were long regarded by city dwellers as backward and impoverished and irrelevant, something to drive past on the
IAMAI-IMRB study pegs rural Internet users at 3.3 mn in Indiaa href
Jan 15, 2009
According to I-Cube 2008, a study jointly undertaken by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, there were 3.3 million active Internet users in rural India
Local language apps key to rural Net usecomst
Jan 15, 2009
New Delhi: The Internet is becoming a less alien phenomenon in the countryside, but the development of local-language applications holds the key to connecting more of the 568 million who
3.3 Million Active Internet Users in Rural India.com
Jan 14, 2009
There were 3.3 million active internet users in rural India as on March 2008 according to the ongoing I-Cube 2008 jointly undertaken by IMRB International and Internet and Mobile Association
RCom plans to launch rural variant of wireless Internet servicea hr
Feb 04, 2009
NEW DELHI: In a bid to challenge state owned telco BSNL's dominance in rural circles, Reliance Communications (RCom) plans to launch a rural variant of its wireless Internet service –
Mobile phone makers moot free handsets for 50 million poor families
Feb 03, 2009
Taking rural telecom penetration to the next level, the Indian Cellular Association (ICA) in a proposal to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested free of cost mobile
Trai pushes measures to improve connectivity in rural India..com
Dec 17, 2008
In a bid to improve rural telephony, telecom regulator TRAI has proposed that all operators who offer communication services in rural India and share their infrastructure with other players be
3i Infotech launches VAS for rural population.
Dec 12, 2008
3i Infotech, a global information technology company, has launched I-SERV, a brand for its retail services. The I-SERV brand comprises a range of value added services to consumers especially
Global giants like Sony Ericsson and Nokia eyeing the Indian MVAS market
Dec 11, 2008
India's telecom scene is expanding at a fast rate with the mobile subscriber base of over 300 million the market is expected to touch 700-million subscriber base by 2012. According
Rural India to account for 60% of telecom subscriber base by 2012.a
Dec 03, 2008
The writing is on the wall; even rural India gives a thumbs up to mobile over landline. As per Trai figures, subscriber additions in rural areas exceeded additions in the
BSNL to energise its rural broadband programme!
Aug 15, 2008
BSNL , the state owned telecom enterprise has announced the installation of WiMax base stations in 1,000 blocks across India by the end of this fiscal year to provide high-speed
Rural Mobile Project- Phase II underway!comst
Aug 09, 2008
The Department of Telecom has invited telecom companies to initiate the second phase of the Rural Mobile Project. The companies shortlisted by DoT will be allowed to bid for the
Banking on the Mobile to reach the poor!comst
Aug 08, 2008
Grameen Solutions, an affiliate of Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank, has joined hands with Obopay Inc., a for-profit mobile payment company based in California, to provide banking facilities
Nokia foresees strong business from rural India
Apr 09, 2009
Handset manufacturer, Nokia is gearing up to cater to the latent demand from the rural segment as it foresees a strong business potential from the segment in years to come.