India - The largest connected nation with 8 million broadband users, says Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology

While addressing the India Internet Governance Forum 2022, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that India is the largest connected nation in the world and has more than 800 million broadband users.

He said that 5G and the largest rural broadband connectivity project at BharatNet will have 1.2 billion Indian users. He also added that the further technological innovations and updated regulatory policies are expected to remain relevant.

“India now has 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 internalization of their economies," he stated.

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