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Li-Fi: Can it light up the digital communication

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I live in a country where the technology and networking is just started to pick up pace. We are still on 2G/3G/4G networks with not necessarily getting the quality of data speed. The disconnections are frequent and promises of MBps merely trickles to few KBps or worse. Modest downloads, hilariously sometime shows weeks’ time to complete. In this scenario sometimes I imagine, what would it be like to have a speed at which I don’t have to wait for streaming, buffering and that too in full HD or Blu-ray quality. It looks little out of league as of now but companies are working hard to grab a share by improving their infrastructure, technology upgrade and competitive price. I was reading across such advancements and breakthroughs and came across one such cutting edge technology which is still in its nascent stage but conceptualization was done at the starting of this decade. I am talking about Li-Fi just like Wi-Fi. Frankly speaking, I have come through this word couple of year...