Google, Facebook and Microsoft race to get 1 billion Indians online

Tech giants hope to benefit from widening access in a country where just 26% of the population has access to the internetWhen Manish Kumar first came to the village of Harisal in western India in July, he didn’t think he could stay there for very long.
“It was monsoon, so it was difficult to reach because the roads were bad. There was no phone signal, and the electricity only comes on for a few hours in the evening. The people there are farmers, so they wake up early. They work all d