Internet in India

Google is one of the fastest yet affordable broadband service providers in the U.S. ever since its launch. The West has too many great Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to choose from but we Indians don’t have very good ISP options,…

We have been shouting out loud that Broadband connectivity in India needs some major changes if we want to embrace progress and development: We reported earlier this month that broadband speed in India is among the slowest in Asia; we…

AKAMAI has come up with their 7th ‘State of the Internet’ report for the last quarter of 2014, and there are more bad news compared to good ones. We shall begin with the good news: India is no more the country with slowest Internet…

In his MWC 2014 appearance, while remarking on Facebook’s future plans, Mark Zuckerberg said that it wants to be the “dial tone of the internet” much like the 911 emergency line in US. To put it simply, it simply to be the essential online…

Before I talk about India’s internet freedom being bad, please keep in mind it is quite relative. We are better than most countries in the world, where there is absolutely no internet freedom from citizens. We, the Indians, should count…

In the present scenario, internet in India is in a dismal state. Especially, if we consider the condition of countries like Japan or even in Europe. Now, I do not see, in the near future conditions improving all of a sudden, but with the…

According to the 2011 State of the Internet report (Third Quarter) by Akamai Technologies, India has seen slightly encouraging trends in broadband adoption and increased hyperconnectivity in the third quarter of 2011. This report provides…

Despite a lot of advancement of technology, only about 60 million people across the country have Internet access. But the silver lining among this is that 72% of this population are school and college students and youngsters in the age…

Yes, it is pathetic to say the least – India has to improve its broadband speeds…Yes, we are riding high on the mobile revolution, but it is imperative that broadband Internet access reaches nook & corner of India for it to really be in…

We are a country of Billion People and we have measly 52 million active users according the yearly report - I-Cube - released jointly by Internet & Mobile Association of India(IAMAI) and IMRB. Overall, 71 million users accessed…