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India leads world in cutting internet access for 5th year in a row

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ha ha ha. you know, for someone who has been seeing internet shutdowns since 2010 if i remember correctly, it has changed my outlook on internet.

I don't use "connected" features any more than email and like. IOT is out of question unless it can be fully operated by home assistant. I don't use "cloud backups" and instead rely on local hardware. I don't use google docs/ office online for the same reason.

Software that is used in my work, it MUST be able to be run fully offline as a primary requirement because of "uncertainty".

So do you face the same problems if you use a landline connection? I live in South India, so obviously my situation is a little different. Generally my internet connection is pretty rock solid reliable.

what do you mean landline connection?

Can only feel the pain....

Weirdly enough they block cellular internet not leased lines or home connections. No wonder the internet was not spawned in India

That's pretty common for government shutdowns in general. Usually they're looking to disrupt communications, but not businesses. Sometimes it's just the ease of telling a limited number of companies to shut things down; leased lines especially tend to be hard to shut down in a centralized way.

Of course, for India in Jammu and Kashmir, they historically only cut off prepaid cell service. If you had postpaid, you were fine. I think that may have changed with more recent shutoffs? Or maybe just the proportion of customers with postpaid has dropped; I'm not affiliated with India, just interested in global telecom because of work.

yeah, that one is really puzzling. There is NO difference in KYC/FTUE/SIGNUP of pre-paid or post-paid SIM cards. You do the same process for both and its a matter of "choosing", new sim cards are now by default pre-on-post (whatever the hell that means) so we don't understand why would they ban them and not others.

pre-paid sim cards DO NOT mean the same as in american movies where you go to a store and buy a mobile phone with preloaded, pre activated sim card for $20.

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