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WiFi Dabba
Wifi Dabba was founded in 2016 by Shubhendu Sharma and Karam Lakshman. The startup provides internet connectivity over wifi to the underserved Indian population. Wifi Dabba's investors include YCombinator and other Silicon valley angels. It launched its public Wi-Fi business in 2018 as an ISP. The word Dabba in the name comes from the colloquial Hindi word for box or container, referring to the box shape of most wifi routers.

To further lower the cost of Internet access, Wifi Dabba has worked extensively with TRAI and DoT for the formulation of Public wifi policy framework for India. In 2020, Govt of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi approved the PM-WANI framework for deploying public wifi in India. Wifi Dabba has been a key stakeholder in the designing, formulation, deployment & testing of PM-WANI architecture. As of today, Wifi Dabba runs one of the largest PM WANI compliant wifi networks in India.