Internet in India

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In India at the end of 2007, 70 million people were using the Internet . This puts India in fourth place in absolute terms, while the number of users is small compared to the number of inhabitants. The top level domain of India is .in . In 2018, the number of users was already estimated at 566 million. The proportion of Internet users in the population was around 40% and is growing rapidly.

history

The Internet was first used by universities in India. This development began in 1988, six years before Chinese universities started using the Internet. In August 1995, the state-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. for the first time to private individuals to set up an Internet connection. In November 1998 private Internet providers were also approved. In 1999 there were only 200,000 Internet connections in India and Internet access was possible at all in only 17 of 32 Indian states and Union territories . The number of Internet users rose to 7 million by December 2001 and to 16.6 million by December 2002. In July 2002 there were only 68,000 websites with the ending ".in". The Internet spread particularly quickly in the state of Karnataka with the capital Bengaluru , the Indian " Silicon Valley ", and in the state of Gujarat . Internet use spread much faster in the big cities than in the villages.

use

Industry and service companies

By globalization and the Internet, some 10,000 jobs were created in India in connection with German companies. In the direction of the USA there are already some 100,000 who provide highly professional services for American corporate groups in India. For example, most of the major printing and publishing companies in India have their products prepress prepared. The same applies to special internet services such as programming and tagging . The diagnosis of imaging diagnostic procedure is shifted with growing trend of American hospitals to India in special clinics with trained partly in US specialists.

Job boards are also very popular on the India web, including many offers that originated in India, e.g. B. naukri.com .

Partner / marriage fairs

In the private sector, dating and marriage fairs on the Internet are very popular, in no other country in the world there are so many Internet offers for this purpose. The largest Internet marriage and partner exchange in the world is the Indian offer shaadi.com (shaadi is the Persian / Hindustani word for "wedding").

journalism

No country in the world has as many newspapers as India, and many newspapers have websites in several different languages.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet users in India to reach 627 million in 2019: Report . In: The Economic Times . March 6, 2019 ( indiatimes.com [accessed August 15, 2019]).