India Restricted Internet Access More than Any Other Country in the World in 2020

As we all know, 2020 was essentially a virtual year as most of the world’s population took theaid of the internettopractically live their livesindoors due to the pandemic. However, according to a recent report, amongst 21 other countries in the world, India experienced the most internet shutdowns due to restrictions. As a result, the country suffereda massive loss of almost $2.8 billiondue to restricted internet access in various regions.

Thesaid reportcomes from the security research firm, Top10VPN and it states that thelosses suffered by India due to internet shutdowns were more than double the combined amount of the next 20 countrieson the list. This was mainly due to the political issues with India’s neighboring countries such as China and, especially Pakistan. However,user-surges in serversalso posedan issuein the situation.

As per the report, India shut down the internet andrestricted access more than 75 timesin the previous year. This was more than any other countries that are on the list.

“The majority of these short blackouts were highly targeted, affecting groups of villages or individual city districts, and so were not included in this report, which focuses on larger region-wide shutdowns,”read the report.

Moreover, the researchers further mentioned the situation of Jammu and Kashmir, where the Indian government restricted internet access for months and only provided 2G services to the citizens. They termed this as“the longest Internet shutdown in a democracy”and wrote that this has had a massive negative effect on the country’s businesses, schools, and essential services.

Beebom Staff

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