Goa chief minister joins everybody else in giving Indians a free mobile connection

Call it a last minute election stunt, or a pure marketing scheme, but several major forces in India have lately voluntarily assigned themselves with the task of distributing free mobile connectivity and smartphones to people. 

We recently saw the Chief Minister of India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh made a promise to give unprivileged citizens in his state a free smartphone. Now it’s the turn of Goa’s Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, who has announced that his BJP-led government will give youths between the age of 18 and 38 a mobile connection. The connection will come with 1GB of free 3G or LTE data, and 100 minutes of voice calls.  Read more...