News from India: Broadband to go free in 2 yrs

[Steppo]

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

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Broadband_to_go_free_in_2_yrs/articleshow/1955351.cms



upps,.... it's from 2007

 

[blackberry]

thanks for the news

 

[kemjika11]

Good news........ but i doubt its feasibility. How can they provider Broadband to so many people for free and maintain high quality? Either way, if they keep working towards this, domainers in general( especially .in and .co.in holders) will be in some luck

 

[advaita]

The article is a year old - has there been any news since ?

 

[aceeca]

The article is a year old - has there been any news since ?

Keen observation mate.

 

[chandan]

paid users are not getting good quality

rural people still dont know about internet

and our gov will give free :D :D must be april fool joke as it is published on april 2007 :p