Facebook rolls out vaccine finder tool in India, donates $10 million
Facebook has announced a $10 million grant to support emergency response efforts in India and has rolled out its Vaccine Finder tool in the country as the South Asian nation grapples with the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The American social network said that it has partnered with a number of organizations including United Way, Swasth, Hemkunt Foundation, I Am Gurgaon, Project Mumbai and US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) to help augment critical medical supplies with over 5,000 oxygen concentrators and other life-saving equipment such as ventilators, BiPAP machines and to increase hospital bed capacity.
PM WANI: Can UPI-Style Approach Lead to Wi-Fi Profusion?
PM WANI will allow for setting up interoperable paid public Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. By Gopal Sathe | Updated: 11 December 2020 14:58 IST
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The idea is modelled after PCOs where anyone could walk in and make calls
Bengaluru-based Wifi Dabba has been one of the early participants in this
PM WANI (Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface) aims to bring large scale deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots through the country to drive up connectivity options and improve digital access. But can it thrive where many others have met with limited success in the past? Gadgets 360 caught up with Shubhendu Sharma, co-founder and COO of Wifi Dabba, one of the companies that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) called a leader in bringing WANI compatibility, to get an insider s view about the upcoming project, how it s supposed to work, and what one ca
Bengaluru’s Wifi Dabba Wants to Beam Broadband to You Using Lasers
Lasers could bring Wi-Fi broadband home at a fraction of the cost of fibre. By Gopal Sathe | Updated: 10 December 2020 09:33 IST
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The cost is a fraction of deploying underground fibre, it said
Wifi Dabba says it will offer unlimited 1Gbps connections for Rs. 799
Bengaluru-based Wifi Dabba has plans to cover the city in lasers that carry data signals, so that it can provide fast and cheap broadband access without the huge expense and time involved in digging up and laying fibre cables. Gadgets 360 had first spoken to Wifi Dabba back in 2017, when the company was working with kirana stores and paan shops small retailers and kiosks to place dabbas (boxes) in these locations which contained routers, and would offer sachet pricing of Rs. 20 for 1GB of data over Wi-Fi.