Data Usage

Contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu mobile application has been discontinued and contact tracing data collected through it has been deleted

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the country is now more conscious of the fact that where and who processes its data

Also ranked 6th among 26 countries in data usage growth over same period

Investments in data centres expected to surpass $20 billion by 2025, with smaller cities gaining too

The advent of technology and the resulting change in our ability to foresee potential future events has coincided with an exponential increase in the range and variety of possible outcomes.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Monday announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage the adoption of open data and promote innovation across India's urban ecosystem.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on July 14 sent panic-waves through Indian banking partners by announcing a ban, effective from July 22, to prevent the U.S. giant from issuing new cards.

Such networks are popular with large, high-traffic websites and those offering big files to download

Internet and broadband penetration across both urban and rural areas progressed rapidly, and the reduced cost of data could enable the affordable access at a fast pace, Economic Survey said

The report found a huge jump in Internet usage, with over 40% of the surveyed population saying they spent more than two hours a day on the Internet in the lockdown months

Revenue market share continues to consolidate with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel as Vodafone Idea loses 10 million users per quarter

Ericsson, in its Mobility Report for June 2020, said India's data traffic growth continued its upward trajectory

The average mobile phone data speed nowadays is down over 20 per cent. Fixed broadband has seen an eight per cent decline in speed.

According to COAI estimates, each telco would require about an additional 5MHz to ensure that the networks continue to function smoothly

With people staying at home, data usage has grown considerably and telecom networks are feeling the pressure

An India Ratings report claimed that Bharti Airtel has overtaken Reliance Jio in average monthly data usage at 11 GB per user

Airtel had about 55 million users with a monthly usage of 45 million GB