In the early days of public WiFi, the Indian market was slow to take off because of regulatory and market obstacles. However, the mobile operators, and other providers, are now accelerating WiFi build-outs to serve the ballooning demand for affordable mobile data in Indian towns and cities. WiFi hotspots and homespots are central to new MNO Reliance Jio’s strategy to keep the cost of data delivery low, in order to undercut its rivals on price and support new, high bandwidth services. But many of the most aggressive moves are being backed by Google and Facebook, which have a strong interest in enabling India’s huge and youthful population to access their services easily and cheaply. They are working on WiFi, and…