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The Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of India, ShriSachinPilot met with ICT Minister, Diego Molano Vega, to exchange experiences about the massification of ICT in both countries.

Minister Diego Molano Vega introduced to his counterpart in India, the Live Digital Plan, with which Colombia will give a great technological leap with the massification of internet use. Likewise, the Minister of India, ShriSachinPilot, presented the initiatives that have put their country in the forefront of technology with nations like China, Japan and the United States.

Minister Molano aims at a cooperation agreement between Colombia and India, in order to draw upon the experience that the Asian country has had in connections for broadband Internet.

According to the GSMA, India will become the second largest mobile broadband market in the world within the next four years, with 367 million mobile broadband connections by 2016. In doing so, India will overtake the U.S., which in that date will have 337 million connections, but will remain behind China, which will reach the 639 million connections in the same period.

The report also indicates that the supply of mobile broadband in rural and remote areas will help India overcome the so-called 'digital gap'. Improve productivity, help overcome the constraints of transport infrastructure and provide much needed services such as banking, health and education.