Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Cybersecurity attacks in India may have increased by 500% according to Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court and Cyber Law expert. Cyber threats have potential impacts on Indian society, economy, and development. The introduction of a new cybersecurity strategy is crucial for India, considered home to the second-largest internet user base. “Threats […]
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On August 12, 2020, The Goa Government approved the state Telecommunications infrastructure policy 2020 which will adopt a single-window permit system- where only the public works department will grant permission to companies for setting up mobile towers, states the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. The companies have to pay Rs 50,000 as a one-time license fee […]
Enhancing connectivity is no easy task. Adopting next generation technology is a mix bag of opportunities and challenges; with operators understanding the scope of potential but also fully aware of the need to increase infrastructure investments. The deployment process includes conducting trials, signing deals with operators that help with adoption of the network, holding spectrum […]
Smart cities came about with the new generation of technologies that allow for the collection, analysis and visualization of data from numerous sources in real-time, using Internet of Things (IoT) devices, 5G networks, AI and many other features to create a sustainable, efficient living environment. Countries are aspiring to the smart-city vision; hoping to improve […]
Many countries continue to take ambitious strides in the deployment of 5G wireless technology, in the hope of advancing connectivity and the digital economy. In India where 5G networks were expected to be launched by late 2020 or early 2021, it is now highly unlikely that this will happen before mid-2021, Qualcomm Ventures said it […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. tech giant Google is investing in a $10 billion fund to help accelerate India’s transition to a digital economy in the next five to seven years. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc‘s Google, said Monday that the project will focus on building products that are relevant to India’s needs and […]
Bharti Airtel selected Nokia’s CloudBand-based software products for its VoLTE (Voice over LTE) network in India. This move has led the telecom giant to be the world’s largest cloud-based VoLTE network and the largest Nokia-run VoLTE in the globe, according to Airtel, which now supports over 110 million customers. It is the largest in the […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Monday banned 59 apps with Chinese links, saying their activities endanger the country’s sovereignty, defense and security. India’s decision comes as its troops are involved in a tense standoff with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh in the Himalayas that started last month. India lost 20 soldiers in a June […]
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a smartphone app that evaluates users’ infection risk based on location services such as […]
India is recognized as the second largest market globally, of telecoms subscriptions, internet subscribers and app downloads. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast, the number of internet subscribers in India, is expected to double to 829 million by 2021, with further mention of the country having 2 billion networked devices by […]