India's internet subscriber base is 100-150 million, depending on whose estimates you take, and is growing at 20-30% a year.
The programme has triggered a huge debate in India.
While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore's Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time scale is not measured in decades and centuries, but in annual quarters, says Shivanand Kanavi.