India Tech Challenges

I'm assuming this is because a huge percentage of India's internet infrastructure was only built recently?

india has a thriving tech start up scene so they are much better off serving local entrepreneurs

Whatever you call it it works really well and India is stupid to play by the colonialist's rules. Look at China, they banned or restricted all the western web companies now they're home to thriving new web giants. With all of India's world class programmers where is India's Baidu or Wechat or Weibo or Alibaba?

Why they have not done the same in India? They must be having more users in India than in US.

India is a very lucrative market for FB and other companies.1 billion people, 2 billion eyes. No privacy laws, can easily share and sell data, govt is in the hands of Reliance (in which FB, Google and others are all investing a lot), most Indians are just getting used to the vast internet and are easily tricked.

Some Indian providers already do this.

My intuition tells me it's a combination of:* They eventually will build one, but Indian consumers are (as of right now) less valuable to them (from an ad targeting perspective) than other geographies e.g. the economic/time/effort investment ROI is better elsewhere in the short term* SE Asia (and their POPs there) have reasonable connectivity to India, so it might good enough for the time being

Nope,https://www.cnet.com/news/why-india-doesnt-want-free-basics/

Would Google pull out of India because of this?

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