Internet In India

India will chart its own course on future of internet: Chandrasekhar

Differing from the view that Europe's data protection rule is a gold standard, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said India will chart its own course for the future of internet, according to an official statement released on Wednesday. The minister during a session with UAE minister Omar Sultan Al Olama at the India Global Forum in Dubai said with more than 820 million internet users, India has the largest presence on global internet and deserves an opportunity to shape its own destiny. "European GDPR is considered a gold standard for privacy and data protection. But we would like to disagree. With more than 820 million internet users, we have the largest presence on global internet and deserve an opportunity to shape our own destiny. We will chart our own course and build a framework suitable for us," Chandrasekhar said. The minister said that the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is now open for consultations. "Protecting the digital rights of our

India largest 'connected' nation with over 800 mn broadband users: MoS IT

The minister said that 5G and the largest rural broadband connectivity network project at BharatNet will have 1.2 billion Indian users constituting the single largest presence of the global internet

Absence of incentives, poor awareness hobble rural WiFi scheme PM-WANI

Scheme central to government's plans to create up to 10 mn public WiFi hotspots by Dec

India climbs six places to 61st rank in network readiness index: Report

India has climbed up six places to 61st rank in the Network Readiness Index 2022 report prepared by US-based non-profit body Portulans Institute, the telecom ministry said on Saturday. The country's overall score has improved to 51.19 in 2022 from 49.74 in 2021, the statement said. "India has improved its position by six slots and is now placed at 61st rank as per the Network Readiness Index 2022 (NRI 2022) report released recently," the statement said. The report states that India secured 1st rank in 'AI talent concentration', second rank in 'Mobile broadband internet traffic within the country' and 'International Internet bandwidth', third rank in 'Annual investment in telecommunication services' and 'Domestic market size', fourth rank in 'ICT Services exports', fifth rank in 'FTTH/Building Internet subscriptions' and 'AI scientific publications'. The United States tops the list with an overall score of 80.3. It is followed by Singapore with a score of 79.35 and Sweden with a sco

Indian agencies have real-time, remote access to internet traffic: Report

The revelation was made by the Internet Service Providers Association of India in a filing with the Department of Telecommunications

Monsoon Session: Centre to bring Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill

The Centre plans to introduce a bill to replace the 155-year-old 'Press and Registration of Books Act' with a simplified version that brings digital media under its ambit

Former VSNL chief, 'father of internet in India', B K Syngal dies

Under his watch, VSNL rolled out India's internet service and launched its then biggest global depository receipt issue.

Zerodha, Upstox, Canva services affected as brief outage hits Cloudfare

The issue has now been resolved as the websites using Cloudfare services are working

Mobile Internet services to be restored in Kashmir today evening

The mobile Internet services will be restored in Kashmir on Monday evening

Digital Evolution Scorecard 2020: India ranks 4th in 'Break Out Economies'

Successful "Break Out Economies" are those that have prioritised improving mobile internet access, affordability, and quality to foster more widespread adoption

8,927 hrs of blackout: Worst internet shutdowns cost India $2.8 bn in 2020

India -- the second-worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of overall confirmed infections -- accounted for about three-quarters of the $4 billion lost worldwide to internet curbs

India Stack fights 'tomorrow's battle' for making innovators self-reliant

The threat of 'digital colonisation' what some people are now talking about, is real, said Lalitesh Katragadda, a key volunteer of India Stack initiative

Nixi permits Net4India domain name customers to shift to other registrars

National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) on Tuesday said it has allowed migration of websites with ".in" extension from the servers of insolvency-bound Net4India to other registrars

Online streaming traffic sees 55% overall surge amid lockdown, says report

There was an overall traffic increase of 73 per cent on weekdays and 65 per cent on weekends, said the 'State of Internet Traffic Trend' report by ACT Fibernet

Simplifying e-commerce: Issues that should be addressed first to draw users

Modern platforms will have to address the vernacular, voice and credit barriers

Internet users in India to reach 627 million in 2019: Report

Internet usage in the country has exceeded half a billion people for first time, pegged at 566 million, driven by rural internet growth and usage

Soon, rural India homes will have internet access via cable TV network

Rural India, with an estimated population of 918 million as per 2011 census, has only 186 million internet users

5G in India: Mobile internet usage to grow by 4GB a month to 11GB in 2022

5G introduction is generally planned on spectrum bands which are currently not deployed in networks

Govt has to decide if it wants coexistence of 2G and 4G: Idea MD at IMC 2017

Himanshu Kapania said Trai has forced the industry to a level where only 4G can survive