What Digital India can Mean for Cloud Telephony

The vision of Digital India is to give the power of technology to people with nothing more than a basic mobile phone to communicate.

- Shivakumar Ganesan

Digital India - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project that launched last year is a massively ambitious project. With spend estimates of more than $17 Bn over the next three to five years, it aspires to transform India with cutting-edge digital infrastructure. The project aims at increasing mobile connectivity and high-speed internet penetration across the country. One major area of focus is to make government services and essential services like healthcare easily accessible, electronically.

What does Digital India Mean for cloud telephony?

With improving internet infrastructure, cloud telephony is already growing at the rate of 27% a year. Businesses have switched to cloud telephony due to its ease of use, low cost, and minimal downtime.

In the face of this trend, here are a few ways in which the ‘Digital India’ initiative will impact the growth of cloud telephony directly.

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