Google will invest more in India, step up hiring, build a new campus and provide affordable Internet access to millions in a nation that is the USbased firm’s most important untapped market for adding users. “The infrastructure and testing at Mumbai Central will start by January”, Pichai said.
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To implement the project, Google has joined hands with RailTel Corporation of India, the telecommunication arm of the Indian Railways.
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Google and RailTel, a railway PSU, had signed an agreement in June to build a high quality Wi-Fi access network at 400 major stations across the country.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai also proposed a partnership with BSNL for Project Loon during his visit to India in December 2015. “But there are fundamental questions around how to ensure a truly inclusive, open Internet for everyone”, said Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaking at today’s Google for India event in Delhi. Last year, Pichai visited India to launch Android One, a program in which the world’s largest search engine partnered with Indian handset makers Spice, Micromax and Karbonn (and later Lava) to sell low-priced $100 devices that ran the latest version of Android. He also hinted at increasing the number of people working for Google in Bengaluru. “And given that India is at the cutting edge of mobile revolution, we think what we build in India will work in many, many places”, he said.
Pichai stated as part of Google’s efforts to help women get online, the company is increasing bicycle for girls programme nationally.
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“The reason we are doing it is that in India when you bring access to internet it changes lives of people”, Pichai said. Within three years, Google is aiming to reach out to three lakh villages in the country. “This country has given me and Google so much”, India-born Pichai said. During his keynote, Pichai shared that by 2016, India will have more Android users than the U.S. Recently, union minister for communications and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad had, in a reply to the Rajya Sabha, said that the project’s proposed frequency band would interfere with cellular transmissions in India.
