Global networking giant Cisco in partnership with Google on Monday announced to roll out free high-speed Wi-Fi access globally, starting with India. The first pilot under the partnership has been rolled out at 35 locations in Bengaluru.Cisco will work with Google’s “Station Platform” to provide communities around the country access to a free public Wi-Fi.“We are committed to security. It will run on https environment — the same environment in which you do online banking transactions,” Sajith Sivanandan, Managing Director and Business Head, Google Pay and “Next Billion User Initiatives”, India, told reporters here. “The service will be supported by advertisements. We will think of more products to make the service commercially available”.According to Cisco, the vision behind rolling out this device is that Internet should be a fundamental right in this country. Currently, about half a billion people in India are online, while 800 million are still not connected to the Internet.Even as telecom infrastructure has become increasingly robust and ubiquitous, public access to high-speed data is critical for connecting over 800 million Indians who still are not online. Reliable and the high-speed public is a key building block to realising the potential of a… Read full this story
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