Microsoft to aide Naidu’s dream of Cheap Internet

Microsoft and Andhra Pradesh Government will join hands on TV White Spaces project which uses unused TV Spectrum to deliver low-cost internet connectivity to users. The regular TV transmission will not get interrupted during this time.

Anil Bhansali, MD, Microsoft India R&D and Prashant Shukla, national technology officer called on chief minister Chandrababu Naidu to discuss the collaboration. They will begin this project as a pilot project to provide low-cost broadband internet connectivity to four educational institutions in the district of Srikakulam which had no internet connectivity earlier.

Naidu always talked about giving cheap broadband connectivity to every household, the initiative will help him realize his dream. Andhra Pradesh is already leading in the country in the Digital India initiative. The government had started implementing State-wide fibre optic network connectivity up to the village level within two and a half years.