India on the cusp of being a top-3 digital society, says Mukesh Ambani
Mumbai, Feb. 24: With mobile networks better or at par with anywhere else in the world, India has an opportunity to become a ‘premier digital society’, Mukesh Ambani said on Monday as he saw the country becoming the third world’s largest economy within the next decade.
Speaking at a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, he said the big change driving this transformation was the deepening of mobile networks which were working at a much faster pace than before. “I can easily say that the mobile networks in India now are better or at par with anywhere else in the world,” he said. “The opportunity that we have for India, really, is the opportunity to become the premier digital society in the world.”
India, he said, has all the components in place to “grow and march forward”. “I have no doubt in my mind that we will become among the top three economies in the world,” he said. “We can argue about whether it will happen in 5 years or 10 years but it’s going to happen, and we will be in the top three economies in the world.” When that happens, he wondered: “Will we be the most technologically enabled society? Will we be having all our development enabled by all the tools of technology?”