India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout

India has issued tenders for a public-private partnership intended to connect another 361,000 villages to the nation's BharatNet fibre optic network. BharatNet aims to connect all of India's villages to the internet, by connecting them to optic fibre and then providing Wi-Fi access points for locals to use. The network's …

[elsergiovolador]

Teletext

Given how strong push there is towards censorship and control what goes in, why not save money and just make sure people can receive teletext?

[Raj]

Re: Teletext

So bringing broadband to every village is all about censorship. As opposed to them not having access to the internet at all to begin with ?

[gandalfcn]

I note the usual people complaining about gov. interference in the PRC are deathly silent.