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  • Microsoft will deliver low-cost broadband to 500,000 rural Indian villages

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    09.28.2015

    A major partnership with Google putting free Wi-Fi in 400 train stations wasn't the only major network news coming from India today. The Indian government also announced on Monday that it will pair with Microsoft to bring low-cost broadband connectivity to half a million villages throughout the subcontinent. That should help at least some of the estimated 4 million people that go without internet connectivity every year