Though India is known for being a land of software engineers
and Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India, the country is still
far, way too behind when it comes to exploring the power of the internet. It is
the Google chairman Mr. Eric Schmidt feels that India hasn’t still harnessed
the power of the net.
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The reason that he sees is that India has failed to invest in
the high-speed telecom networks. Schmidt has focused on the fact that there are
very less Indian people who do have access to the internet. The figure stands
at about 150 million out of the total population roughly of about 1.2 billion.
The figure comes down even more when it comes to the people
using high-speed internet – only about 20 million. The lackluster internet
speed has done no good to the country. Schmidt compared the current internet
scenario in India to that of being in the US in the year 1994. India is lagging
behind the US by about 19 years.
Eric Schmidt has said that there could be fiberoptic cables underground
at all the possible places. These cables could serve for decades and that could
help in users getting endless bandwidth.
But how practical it would be to have such broadband
connections in a country where the fundamental service like power hasn’t
reached hundreds of thousands of citizens.
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