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One Indian State’s Grand Plan to Get 23M People Online

Jan 20, 20178 min
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Episode description

The trench running along the road linking Kodicherla and Penjarla in southern India is just 5 feet deep and about half as wide. Yet it carries the promise of a better life for the people of those villages, and all of Telangana. Within the ditch lie two pipes, a large black one carrying fresh water and smaller blue one containing a fiber optic broadband cable.

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