India Dept. of Communications R&D Unit Unveils Solar-Powered Wi-Fi Hotspots and Trunking

Signal trunking systems using Wi-Fi protools and solar-powered Wi-Fi hotspots are among innovations developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics in India. C-DoT is a research arm of the Department of Communications. 

India will have 236 million mobile Internet users by 2016 and 314 million by 2017, according to a report by KPMG produced on behalf of the Internet and Mobile Association of India.

India also will have over 500 million total Internet users by 2017. In June 2015, there were more than 350 million Indian Internet users.

The 3G user base in India is projected to grow at a CAGR of 61.3 percent compound annual growth rate  from 2013 to 2017. 

There were approximately 82 million 3G subscribers in India at the end of 2014 and will reach 284 million by end of year 2017.