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Boingo has just added 500 Wi-Fi hotspots of Tata Communications to their global roaming network. According to the company, the aggregated network in India now includes popular locations such as Barista Coffee, Pizza Corner and Coffee World, Nokia Priority Centers and Nirula’s, as well as numerous hotels and airports (Chennai International Airport, Cochin International Airport, Goa International Airport, Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Pune International Airport, and Sardar Vallabhbhai International Airport).

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Mumbai, India will be issuing a public tender in August inviting companies to bid for the deployment of a citywide Wi-Fi network. The city does not want to spend any public funds on the project (sounds like SF, Philadelphia and Houston). Anyway, the wireless network will be an intranet, which people can use to communicate with one another. They want to get the network up and running within six months, which I find too ambitious. We have already seen how…

India’s smallest state intends to become one of its most connected. Goa has announced plans to build a broadband network that enable it “to be efficient and accountable with a global thinking approach.”

The state’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, announced the Goa Broadband Network (GBBN, also called Goa Net) last week. It is designed to provide connectivity to 280 government state and municipal offices. According to a report from the Indo-Asia News service, it will be built as a public-private partnership…

Following successful pilots of metro and highway Wi-Fi networks in Pune and Bangalore, India, equipment maker RoamAD and Adino Telecom, an Indian wireless service provider, have signed a partnership agreement. Following successful pilots of metro and highway Wi-Fi networks in Pune and Bangalore, India, equipment maker RoamAD and Adino Telecom, a wireless service provider in India, have signed a partnership agreement.

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China accounted for more than one third of the new DSL connections in Asia, but the growth in India has been disappointing. This can have serious repercussions for venture capital firms investing in India and for the Indian film industry, according to Om Malik. China accounted for more than one third of the new DSL connections in Asia, but the growth in India has been disappointing. This can have serious repercussions for venture capital firms investing in India and for…