In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
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#2Speech detection is just amazing when you think about illiterate folk, it's a game changer for them. Jio's genius was offering free data plans for a year, getting folks hooked. But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing.
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#3Great read ^.^
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#4That's an exciting read and it's hard to grasp the sheer numbers involved here, no wonder bandwidth is troublesome at these scales.
Feels like this could eventually start a liberating movement for women across the country.
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#5That's an exciting read and it's hard to grasp the sheer numbers involved here, no wonder bandwidth is troublesome at these scales. Feels like this could eventually start a liberating movement for women across the country.
Don't worry, no one is ever that interested in men being happy anyway.
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#6Speech detection is just amazing when you think about illiterate folk, it's a game changer for them. Jio's genius was offering free data plans for a year, getting folks hooked. But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing.
> But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing.
It has now reduced to 4 cents per GB for Jio Fiber. I'm sure local ISPs have reduced prices even more just to compete with Jio (in some places you can get 3.3TB for 10$)
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Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
#8That's an exciting read and it's hard to grasp the sheer numbers involved here, no wonder bandwidth is troublesome at these scales. Feels like this could eventually start a liberating movement for women across the country.
Seems a bit of a leap to suggest that only men are interested in controlling women.
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#9Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty.
Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels.
I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopped worrying about data a long time ago.
And I don't even use JIO, the provider that brought in massive reductions in data prices.
Edit : I stopped using WiFi even at home, consume about 40 GB a month.
Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
#10Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…
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