The next few years will be definitive for the evolution of India’s digital infrastructure and the role it can play in the country’s growth. *******While the story of the potential value that India’s digital infrastructure can add, has been told many times, developments in this sector have so far lagged expectations. The next few years could see unprecedented changes in the ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of digital access. Creating broadband infrastructure: Let us turn our attention to the resources required for the creation of broadband infrastructure. Over the next few years, we need to prevent market failures in digital infrastructure creation—failures that are borne out of unfavourable economics and lead to suboptimal development of digital infrastructure and issues in both ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of digital access.

Source: Mint January 23, 2017 21:27 UTC