Indian PM Narendra Modi, meeting with top Silicon Valley execs this weekend, inks deals with Google and Microsoft to expand Internet access in India
starting with 10 million rail passengers a day Dante D'Orazio / The Verge : Google bringing high-speed Wi-Fi to 100 Indian rail stations by the end of 2016 Jon Fingas / Engadget : Google is putting WiFi in 400 Indian train stations Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Microsoft wants to bring cheap broadband to 500,000 Indian villages Jessica Guynn / USA Today : Facebook, Silicon Valley, ‘like’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central : Microsoft to bring low-cost broadband access to 500,000 Indian villages Sneha Bokil / Fone Arena : Google to install high-speed public Wi-Fi in 400 train stations across India Andy Weir / Neowin : Microsoft partners with Indian government to bring low-cost broadband to 500,000 villages Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central : Google is bringing high-speed Wi-Fi to 400 train stations across India Hammad Saleem / WinBeta : Microsoft aims to bring low-cost broadband to 500,000 Indian villages JC Torres / SlashGear : Google to connect Indians to the Internet via train stations Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch : Google Announces Plan To Put Wi-Fi In 400 Train Stations Across India Noah Kulwin / Re/code : At Facebook, India's PM Talks Democracy and Economic Growth, Nothing About Facebook's India Woes Vindu Goel / New York Times : Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, Visits Silicon Valley Ian Sherr / CNET : India's Modi, in Facebook talk, pushes Internet as key way to govern Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Google to install Wi-Fi in 400 train stations across India, promises to cover the busiest 100 stations in 2016 Queenie Wong / Mercury News : Modi highlights India's economic prowess in Q&A with Facebook's Zuckerberg