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Interactive: Digital India dream has a long way to go

WION
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Jan 05, 2017, 12:04 PM IST
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India today has 367.46 million Internet connections, with only 190 million of these being broadband connections. Photograph:(AFP)

Over the past few years, the Indian government has been pushing its Digital India initiative. Added to that, the government’s demonetisation drive has resulted in a greater need for high-speed and deeper Internet penetration in the country.
 
Latest figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India show that broadband connections in the country grew by just a little over 18 percent at the end of September 2016.
 
India today has 367.46 million Internet connections, with only 190 million of these being broadband connections.
 
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