Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi To Launch Digital India Project Today (Watch live here)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today formally launch the Digital India Project via video conferencing in two village panchayats of the district, a senior official said yesterday.

Today we are taking a landmark step in our quest to create a Digital India. pic.twitter.com/15XYj1GFwx

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 1, 2015

The Digital India Project, a pet scheme of the Modi government, aims to connect all gram panchayats by broadband Internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) Indore Circle General Manager M R Rawat said that ten village panchayats, which are around 35 km from here, will be connected with a high-speed internet service under the project that will be launched today.

Work to connect 335 village panchayats with high-speed Internet is almost nearing completion, the BSNL official said. Rawat said that BSNL will kickstart celebrations to mark ‘Digital Week’ from today, under which school kids and commoners will be introduced to modern telecommunication techniques.

Airtel is now World’s third largest Mobile Operator with over 303 million Customers

Airtel has announced that it has become third largest mobile operator in the world in terms on subscribers, based on the latest ranking from World Cellular Information Service (WCIS). China Mobile is the top mobile operator in the world with over 626 million customers followed by Vodafone Group with over 403 million customers.

Last year Airtel crossed 200 million mobile subscriber mark in India and also reached 300 million customers across its operations globally that includes, mobile, fixed line & DSL, and DTH services. Today the company said that it has largest rural mobile customer base in India with over 100 million mobile customers.

Airtel covers over 1.85 billion people across its operations in 20 countries and carried over 1.23 trillion minutes of calls and over 333 petabytes of data in FY 2014-15. Airtel offers 4G services in over 30 cities in India using TD- LTE & FDD-LTE technology. The company plans to launch FDD‐LTE services on 1800 MHz in 6 circles in India.

Top Five Global Mobile Operators by Customers

Regarding the new milestone, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said:

This is a major landmark in the journey of Airtel and underlines the strength of our business model and our brand that is loved by customers across 20 countries. Today, we seamlessly manage global scale operations in diverse geographies and deliver the same world-class services to each customers, this perhaps is one of our biggest achievements. I want to thank our employees and our business partners for supporting us through this exciting journey and with the mobile internet play about to happen in the developing world, things will only get brighter from here on.

I am also proud of the fact that we have built one of the biggest consumer brands in the world out of India. It would not have been possible without the progressive policies of the Government of India and the TRAI. I take this opportunity to assure them that we are fully committed to their vision of Digital India and empowering every Indian.

(Deal Alert) Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G Now Available At Rs 7.999

Xiaomi seems to have hit the sweet spot in terms of production costs for some of its models. The Chinese OEM recently dropped the price of the Mi 4 16GB and now the Redmi Note 4G has joined in. The Redmi Note 4G will now be available at a revised price of Rs 7,999 instead of the earlier Rs 9,999.

Redmi Note price drop

The Redmi Note 4G was launched back in December 2014 for Rs 9,999 and was pretty much the smartphone that gave rise to the budget 4G revolution in India. The smartphone is still one of the better sub Rs 10,000 devices but rising competition meant that it started to lose out on steam. But the price drop has put it against sub Rs 8,000 devices and it comes across as a decently well specced device at its new price point.

The refurbished Redmi Note 4G sells for Rs 7,999 and now you can get yourself a new one at the same price. The price drop will reflect across Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, The Mobile Store and Airtel outlets and Mi.com. Let us quickly revisit its specifications:

Redmi Note 4G specifications

5.5-inch IPS LCD display, 1280 x 720 pixels
Android 4.4 KitKat based MIUI
1.6GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 with Adreno 305 GPU
2GB RAM
8GB storage, microSD card slot for expansion up to 32GB
13-megapixel primary camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel secondary camera
4G LTE( TDD-2300 MHz & FDD-1800 MHz), Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 LE, micro USB v2.0 port, and USB OTG
3,100 mAh removable Li-Po battery

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