Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Digital India aims at improving technological infrastructure of the country. And now a PTI report has quoted Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying, the government is open to give a go ahead to experiments by Google, Microsoft and others to take care of digital challenges that the country might come across in days ahead.
While addressing the gathering at the National Seminar on Spectrum Management, Prasad asserted, "Technology is overtaking us. Google wants to explore the Loon project and also, Microsoft is trying to explore white space. As a minister, I am very clear that all new technologies must be given proper opportunity for experimentation."
In the Loon project, Google aims at providing Internet facilities by using large balloons. For this, the Internet giant wants to experiment its Loon project in premium spectrum bands of 700Mhz or 800Mhz.
In December last year, Prasad told Rajya Sabha, "The proposed frequency band to be used in the Loon Project of Google is being used for cellular operations in India and it will lead to interference with cellular transmissions."
Using 4G wireless communication technology, each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area of about 40 km in diameter, said Google.
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