Telecommunications in India

In India the end of 2007 70 million people used the Internet. Thus, India is in absolute numbers in fourth place, while the number of users compared to population is low. The top -level domain of India. In.

History

The internet was first used in India by universities. This development began in 1988, and thus six years before Chinese universities began to use the Internet. In August 1995, the State offered Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.. first private citizens to the establishment of an Internet connection. In November 1998, private Internet providers have been approved. In 1999, India had only 200,000 Internet accesses and only in 17 out of 32 Indian states and union territories of the Internet access was possible. The number of Internet users rose to December 2001 to 7 million and by December 2002 to 16.6 million. In July 2002 there were only 68,000 Internet pages with the ending. " In ". Especially quickly spread the Internet in the state of Karnataka with its capital Bangalore, the Indian "Silicon Valley", and in the state of Gujarat. In the big cities, the Internet use spread much faster than in the villages.

Use

Industrial and service companies

Due to globalization and the Internet, some 10,000 jobs were created in India in connection with German companies. There are already some 100,000 to the United States that provide highly professional services for American companies groups in India. So let for example, most large printing and publishing business in India process the prepress of their products. The same applies to specific Internet services such as programming and tagging. The findings of diagnostic imaging procedures is shifted with growing tendency of American hospitals in India in specialty practices with trained partly in U.S. specialists.

Job boards are in India - Web is also very popular, including many offers that are originated in India, for example, naukri.com.

Partner-/Heiratsbörsen

In the private sector partner and marriage exchanges on the internet are very popular, in any other country in the world there are so many internet services for this purpose. The biggest internet marriage and friendship stock market around the world is an Indian offer shaadi.com ( shaadi is the Persian / Hindustani word for " wedding ").

Journalism

No country in the world has so many newspapers such as India, and many newspapers operate a website in several different languages.

Swell

• Larry Press, William Foster, Peter Wolcott, William McHenry: The Internet in India and China. In: First Monday. 7, No. 10, October 2002 (online, accessed on February 2, 2008).

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• Media (India)