How is India’s telecom sector different from the rest of the world? PM Modi enumerated 10 big reasons for IMC 2024

Asia’s biggest tech event India Mobile Congress (IMC 2024) has started. The theme of this four-day long event has been kept as “Future is Now”. IMC was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Along with him, Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, chairmen of telecom companies and members of the International Telecommunication Union also participated in this event.

India’s telecom sector is different from the world

PM Modi has described India’s telecom sector as different from the world in the India Mobile Congress. He said that for the world telecom is only a medium of communication but in India it is a medium of communication as well as equity. In the new India, this medium is working to bridge the gap between village, city, rich and poor.

Enumerated these 10 big reasons

1. India today is one of the most happening countries in the world in terms of telecom and technology. There are 120 crore mobile and 95 crore internet users here.
2. 40 percent of the world’s real-time digital transactions are done in India. India uses digital connectivity as an effective tool for last mile delivery.
3. There is a lot of focus on quality of service in Bharti Telecom sector. Mobile and telecom travel here is a subject of study for the world.
4. Around the world, mobile and telecom have been seen only as a convenience, whereas in India its model has been something else. It has been made a medium of equity, which works to reduce the gap between village and city, rich and poor.
5. In India, work has been done on the four pillars of Digital India – low price of devices, digital connectivity, access of data to every user and digital first.
6. Make in India program has been worked on to reduce the price of mobile phones in India. In the last 10 years, the number of mobile manufacturing units has increased from two to over 200.
7. Thousands of mobile towers have been rapidly installed to provide connectivity in border and hilly areas. To make internet accessible to everyone, thousands of public Wi-Fi have been installed in railway stations and other public places.
8. India has laid undersea optical fiber cable to provide connectivity in Andaman. The length of OFC that India has laid in just 10 years is 8 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
9. India has shown the fastest rollout of 5G and preparations are also being made for 6G. The price of internet data in India is around 12 cents per GB, whereas in many countries of the world the price per GB of data is 10 times more. We consume 30GB data per user.
10. Technology is being used for the welfare of people. Schemes for women like Drone Didi to Mahila E-Haat are being run in India, which is an example of India’s digital revolution.

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