India Largest ‘Connected’ Nation With 800 Mn Broadband Users: MoS Chandrasekhar

The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said that India is the largest ‘connected’ nation in the world today with more than 800 million broadband users. 

Speaking at the India Internet Governance Forum 2022, Chandrasekhar said India is the largest ‘connected’ nation in the world with 800 million Indian users. 

The Minister also 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.

He said further technological innovations as well as updated regulatory policies to remain relevant are expected. The deep involvement by all stakeholders will be the third leg of this Global Standard Cyber Law Framework that we hope will catalyse the Indian internet and the economy, he added.

The MoS said that India now has a tremendous powerful offering, identity authentication to a very diverse and rich suite of applications, and improved accessibility to the internet to countries in the Global South which have not been able to step up and create the same sort of pace of digitization of the economy is an internetization of their economies.