The Indian Government has asked Internet companies like Facebook and Gooogle to screen contents from India and remove inflammatory or defamatory user content before it goes online. Does it make any for the government to ask for human screening of all messages in social networks?
TRAI’s Telecom Subscription Data report for May 2011 estimates that, total telephone subscribers in India reached 874.68 Million, making the overall Tele-density 73.11. Total Wireless subscriber base is 840.28 Million – 88.30% by Private operators and 11.70% by BSNL and MTNL.
Opera 11.5 is available for download as an international build, or as a localized version. Opera 11.5 support 55 lanuguages, including 5 Indian languages – Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Additional languages may be installed by downloading appropriate language file.
Cisco has said that online traffic in India will be expected to grow nine-fold to 14.4 exabytes by 2015 from 1.6 exabytes in 2010. The traffic is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 54 per cent during the five years to 2015. 273 million DVDs per month.
According to a McKinsey study based on internet-enabled consumption patterns by individuals and governments, in India, the internet contributed 5% to GDP growth in the past 5 years compared with the average 3% for BRIC economies. India beats China in internet contribution to GDP.
