× Infrastructure
- physical infrastructure
×Affordability
- cost of access
×Relevance
- content & language
Developing country’s access percentage is lesser
than global average, but they have 40 % of global
population
• Requires a high speed connectivity for all parts including rural and remote areas.
• For this, huge investment required. Internet Service Providers cannot afford this alone.
• In such cases Government creates a vast infrastructure and collect a nominal usage charge from ISPs and other users.
• Cost of access plays a major role especially in
cost sensitive country like India.
• In telecom market, consumer base and relatively
less cost infrastructure and average utilization of
network will have an impact on cost factor.
• In a competitive market scenario, advancement
in technologies will bring down the cost and make
internet access affordable.
• Apart from infra and cost, lack of content
felt by people also a reason for not using
internet
• Most of the content isn’t in their primary
language.
• People are not aware of utilities availed
through internet
• To access some commercial content, we
have to pay money. All are not free in
internet.
Several websites are providing free access.
For operating their company, they get money by
utilizing customer information for commercial
purposes. Ex: Facebook, Google, Twitter and
etc.
Few not for profit organizations also present.
They collect donations from generous to
provide content to all equally. Ex: Wikipedia
Other sites are directly collect nominal free
from user for accessing its content and
facilities. Ex: Digital Libraries
Poor people can afford only free content. That should be relevant for them. Then only they will use internet.
Language is one of the barrier in restricting the use of internet by common people
To reach 80% population, 92 language contents are required.
Under this Internet.org project several
websites can be accessed without paying any
charges for internet. It includes Wikipedia,
Facebook and few more education related
sites.
This project is aim to provide affordable
internet access to all people in any part of the
world.
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