{"id":5404,"date":"2012-11-29T23:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2012-11-29T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:53:28","slug":"startup-village-2nd-in-world-to-have-1gbps-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/startup-village-2nd-in-world-to-have-1gbps-internet-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup village &#8211; 2nd in World to have 1Gbps Internet connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Google launched 1 Gbps internet connection at Startup Village in Kansas City in United states. Now <a title=\"US Entrepreneur to set up Startup School in Kerala\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/us-entrepreneur-to-set-up-startup-school-in-kerala\/\" target=\"_blank\">Startup Village<\/a> at Kochi also joined the club by becoming the second place in the world to experience lightning fast 1Gbps internet connection. Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy formally introduced the facility on November 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not behind Silicon Valley. Our youngsters also are privy to the best available connectivity. Startup Village aims to build the elements of a world class tech ecosystem to realize the dream of a Silicon Coast in India. The vision at this grandiose scale is driven by one of India&#8217;s most successful IT entrepreneurs, Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys and powered by Dept of Science and Technology, Govt of India. The Startup Village at Kochi is the first location of this national pilot, which would be replicated to other parts of India in the coming months,&#8221; said Startup Village chairman Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The average speed of <a href=\"https:\/\/fiber.google.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google fibre<\/a> network is 100 times faster than our broadband internet connection. It is expected that by the mid 2013, <em><strong>1Gbps internet plans<\/strong><\/em> will be available in India to its residential consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new connectivity comes as a milestone in our efforts to ensure the most conducive atmosphere of growth for the increasing number of incubatees. World-class infrastructure facilities will prompt the young companies to perform and meet the global competition,&#8221; said Startup Village CEO Sijo George Kuvilla.<\/p>\n<p>Startup village is powered jointly by Department of Science and Technology under the Government of India, <a title=\"Safecomm \u2013 A Mobile phone for children\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/safecomm-a-mobile-phone-for-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technopark Trivandrum<\/a> and MobME Wireless. Kerala has the honour to become the first state to introduce the &#8216;Student Entrepreneurship policy&#8217; in Startup Village to nurture entrepreneurship among college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Google launched 1 Gbps internet connection at Startup Village in Kansas City in United states. Now Startup Village at Kochi also joined the club by becoming the second place in the world to experience lightning fast 1Gbps internet connection. Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy formally introduced the facility on November 17. \u201cWe are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":5405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[464,149],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-ernakulam","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}