Google on Monday announced plans to invest $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years, focusing on four key areas: digitizing India, enabling affordable internet access, building new products and services tailored to India’s needs, and empowering businesses..
As part of this investment, Google plans to launch free public Wi-Fi hotspots in 500 railway stations across India, as well as free high-speed Wi-Fi at 100,000 village panchayats. The company will also launch a new online platform called ‘Google for India’, which will bring together all of Google’s products and services that are relevant to India, such as Google Pay, YouTube, and Google Maps..
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said that the investment is a reflection of Google’s belief in India’s potential. .
