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BSNL 4G Activation USSD Code 2023 - How To Activate BSNL 4G Sim
BSNL 4G Activation USSD Code 2023 – How To Activate BSNL 4G Sim
BSNL 4G Activation USSD Code 2023: Do you want to upgrade your BSNL sim to a 4G network, if yes then the BSNL 4G activation USSD code is given below so that you can use BSNL 4G network. You can easily activate BSNL 4G service with BSNL 4G VoLTE activation code, whether you have a prepaid or postpaid SIM. One of the biggest telecom companies is owned by the government and is called Bharat Sanchar…
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How to activate Bsnl sim card Full process step by step
We will give you complete information about activating the BSNL 4G SIM card, read the complete post to know about the process of how to activate Bsnl sim card.
Activate BSNL 4G SIM Card
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Mobile Balance Transfer Ussd Code For Idea, Airtel, Vodafone, Bsnl Telenor, Reliance,
Now you can transfer your mobile balance by dialing ussd code. We face many problems while sharing talk time or data balance but we are giving you some easy methods to transfer sim balance from a prepaid account. You can use this balance transfer service without any hesitation and send your 2g/3g/4g sim balance to any mobile network.
How To Transfer Mobile Balance To Any Network (Idea, Airtel, Vodafone, Bsnl Telenor, Reliance Gsm)
So now we are here to learn about all the network's ussd codes. We all know that many times we take a loan for prepaid balance and pay extra money to the operator. If you want to avoid all these difficulties then using the ussd codes service, you can get balance in any of your networks from the network.
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Idea Sim
If you want to move your idea balance, then use your mobile to get an immediate prepaid balance and follow the USSD code -

Dial *567 *Receiver_ Mobile_Number*Amount# or Dial *191#
After doing this, you will get all the notifications on your mobile screen, carefully select an option to share Talktime or Balance.
you can use these code to transfer the 3g/4g net balance from idea to Vodafone or another network.
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Airtel Sim
You should know that Airtel has made considerable changes in its mobile recharge, in which it is mandatory for a minimum of 35rs minimum validity for one-month validity, if non-recharge, outgoing and incoming calls will be stopped.
If your SIM service has been stopped or if you have valid validity, you can find it by typing in airtel ussd codes.
You can also share your mobile balance from your airtel sim by using these steps -
Dial *141#
You will get a message on your mobile screen.
Answer 1 for Share talk time.
Now Send the receiver mobile number.
Then Enter the amount which you want to send to your friend and Click on Transfer button.
How to Transfer Mobile Balance Form Vodafone Sim
You can transfer Vodafone sim balance by following some simple steps -
Dial *131*Amount*Number# or
*111*3# and select 5 and 1 on the next page.
by this way, you can easily transfer balance Vodafone to Vodafone number.
Know more: Vodafone ussd codes list to check the balance
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Bsnl Sim
Current only balance transfer service is available in bsnl network. You can avail this service by dialing ussd code which is mentioned below -
Open your phone message box and Type GIFT_Mobile Number_Amount
Send this to 53733
Example: GIFT 9400000000 and send it to 53733
Know More: Check Bsnl Service by Dialing Ussd Codes
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Telenor/Uninor Sim
You can transfer the mobile balance from Telenor/Uninor sim, follow these steps -
Dial *202*Mobile Number* Amount#
Example: *202*9100000000*20#
These codes are working on all mobile phone and absolutely working in India.
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Reliance Sim
Mobile Balance transfer service is available with reliance sim, just follow below steps one by one -
Dial *367*3# using reliance gsm sim.
Select Preferred option.
Enter your friends/family member mobile number.
Proceed to send small recharge.
How to Transfer Mobile Balance From Docomo Number
Type BT 10 digit mo. no.
Enter the amount and send it to 54321
All done! the balance has been transferred.
How to Transfer My Jio Sim Balance
These type of service is not activated yet. If they active jio balance transfer code or service then we will update here soon.
Know More: Get Jio Sim Remain Balance Details via Ussd Codes
Note: It can be possible to work on the same network work while moving the move and code, balance. Like Airtel Airtel, Idea to Idea, Vodafone to Vodafone
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In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear. I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway. In a socially distanced landscape, addressing the 'digital ditch' is more essential than ever. Representational image from Reuters/Kacper Pempel Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”. The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online. A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out. The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women. This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch. Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch. Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us? Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas). In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient. Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.” Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public. Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places. Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online. Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns. The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity. The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next one to two years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector. There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with. Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
http://sansaartimes.blogspot.com/2020/04/coronavirus-crisis-underscores-urgency_27.html
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AIRTEL USSD Codes List- Check Talktime Balance, Offers & Plans!
Hello AIRTEL prepaid user, I have created a fresh list of Airtel USSD Codes for you. You can use these USSD codes for variety of purpose such as checking balance or taking talktime or taking loan in Airtel. Plus, you can also check latest and new Offers, Plans and Alerts available for you.
Updated Airtel USSD Codes LIST
USSD is an acronym of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, is a protocol (set of rules). Now, let’s get into the available list of Airtel USSD Codes. Try them and enjoy!
*121*7# Then type 1 and process*121*7# Then type 2 and process*121*7# Then type 3 and process*121*7# Then type 5 and process*121*7# Then type 6 and process*121*8# Then type 1 and process for Activation process 1 Again*121*8# Then type 4 and process*121*8# Then type 5 and process*121*8# Then type 7 and process.
Airtel Mobile Balance Check Code (Airtel Balance check code). *123# or *121*1# Airtel USSD Codes for finding your Own Mobile Number. *121*1# or *121*9# Airtel Mobile Balance Check Code *121*2# Airtel Mobile Number Validity Check Code (Airtel Validity check code). *121*2# Airtel Mobile 3G Internet Balance Check Code. *121*2# Airtel Mobile Recharge Coupon Code (Airtel recharge code) *121*3# Airtel USSD code for Hello Tune *121*4# Airtel Active Services Check Code *121*5# Airtel Digital TV account Detail *121*6# or Miss Call on 8130081300 From your Registered number Airtel Last 5 Charge Check Code (Airtel last 5 charge check code). Airtel Value Added Service Check Code (Airtel value added service check code). Airtel Last 5 Charge on Voice Check Code. Airtel Last SMS/MMS Detail Check Code *121*7# Then type 4 and process Airtel 5 Last Internet Data Deduction Detail (Airtel last 5 Data check code). Airtel Last 5 Recharge Detail (Airtel last 5 recharge check code) Airtel 2G Cyber Cafe For 1 HourPack Rs.9 (Airtel Balance check code). Airtel All 2G Internet Pack Details *121*8# Then type 2 and process Airtel All 3G/4G Internet Pack Details *121*8# Then type 3 and process Airtel 2G/3G Internet Data Loan Code (Airtel Data loan code). Airtel Unlimited Validity Pack Details (Airtel Balance check code). Airtel Free Wynk Detail *121*8# Then type 6 and process Airtel Voice Packs Detail. Airtel 50 L+N SMS Pack *121*10# Then type 2 and process ( Get 50 Loc+STD SMS/1day @Rs 5. Pack benefit will be applicable for max 100 SMS/day. Airtel 10 Local and STD minute Pack . *121*8# Then type 3 and process ( Get 10 Local+STD minutes @ Rs 5. Valid till today midnight. Airtel 50 A2A minute Pack . *121*8# Then type 4 and process. ( Get 50 A2A Local Night Calls 11PM-6am @ Rs 5. Valid till for 1day. Airtel [email protected] (20MB/day) *121*8# Then type 5 and process Airtel SMS Packs Detail . *121*8# Then type 8 and process. Airtel Local Aircel to Aircel minute check Code . *123*1# Airtel Local SMS balance Check Code *123*2# Airtel Local and STD SMS Balance Check Code . *123*3# or *123*7# Airtel Dedicated Account Balance Check Code . *123*4# Airtel Free STD Minutes Balance check code *123*8# USSD Code to check Local Airtel to Airtel Minutes Balance. *123*1# Airtel SMS Balance Check code . *123*7# Airtel USSD Codes to Check Airtel 2G Internet Balance Check Code (Airtel Internet balance check). *123*10# Airtel USSD Code to Check Airtel 3G Data Balance (Airtel 3G Internet balance check). *123*11#
These Airtel USSD Codes and the services associated them gets updated frequently. I suggest you to kindly cross-check them with official list or call the customer care. Thanks for your understanding!
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All Other Airtel USSD Codes
Airtel Loan USSD Code Dial *141*10# Airtel money USSD Code. Airtel my offer USSD Code *121# Airtel Own Mobile Number USSD Code. *282# or *121*9# Airtel Twitter Service *515# Airtel Facebook Service. *325# Airtel Mobile Number Portability SMS PORT to 1909 Airtel Hello Tune. *678# Airtel Balance Transfer Code *141# and then choose your options
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Airtel Special Offers
If you are looking for special offers from Airtel, then you should dial following Airtel USSD code.
*141# (Airtel Gift Service)
*222# (Special Five Offers)
How to check Airtel Offer of the day?
There are plenty of offers given by Airtel. And they keep updating their offers, which you can check by dialing following Airtel USSD codes. You can also check My Airtel, My Offer.
*141# (Airtel Gift Service)
*222# (Special Five Offers)
How to check Main Balance in Airtel?
If you are curious about the remaining talktime/ main balance in your Airtel sim, then – just dial the following USSD Codes.
*123# (Balance Check Number)
*125*5# (SMS Balance)
Check Airtel Net Balance 3G/4G/2G
Hey, if you use 2G/3G or 4G Internet from Airtel. Then you can check your remaining Internet data balance by dialing following Airtel USSD Code.
*123*11# (3G Data Balance)
*123*10# (Check GPRS/2G Data)
*123*7# (Check GPRS/2G Data)
USSD Code List for Other Operators
If you have more than one mobile number then you must be interested in knowing USSD Codes of those mobile service operators as well. Here is the list:
All USSD Codes List for Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Reliance, Jio, Telenor, BSNL, Docomo, MTNL, Videocon
More on Airtel!
We have written more stuff on Airtel that you might be interested in checking out! Please find the articles on airtel linked below.
Airtel Loan (USSD Code for Talktime & Internet Balance)
Check Airtel Internet Balance
Airtel Balance Transfer
Disclaimer and Conclusion
Airtel USSD Codes are comes very handy and can be used to avail different services anytime from anywhere. We don’t have to go to Airtel authorized dealer or service center to use these USSD Codes.
All the above furnished Airtel USSD codes are valid to our best knowledge, but I suggest you to kindly cross them with Airtel official website list.
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Coronavirus crisis underscores urgency of bridging divide between India's digital haves and have-nots
In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear.
I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway.
In a socially distanced landscape, addressing the 'digital ditch' is more essential than ever. Representational image from Reuters/Kacper Pempel
Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”.
The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online.
A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out.
The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women.
This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch.
Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch.
Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us?
Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas).
In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient.
Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.”
Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public.
Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places.
Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online.
Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns.
The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity.
The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next one to two years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector.
There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with.
Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
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Coronavirus crisis underscores urgency of bridging divide between India's digital haves and have-nots
In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear.
I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway.
Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”.
The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online.
A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out.
The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women.
This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch.
Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch.
Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us?
Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas).
In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient.
Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.”
Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public.
Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places.
Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online.
Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns.
The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity.
The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next 1-2 years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector.
There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with.
Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
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Coronavirus crisis underscores urgency of bridging divide between India's digital haves and have-nots
In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear.
I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway.
Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”.
The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online.
A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out.
The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women.
This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch.
Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch.
Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us?
Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas).
In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient.
Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.”
Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public.
Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places.
Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online.
Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns.
The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity.
The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next 1-2 years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector.
There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with.
Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
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In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear. I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway. Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”. The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online. A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out. The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women. This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch. Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch. Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us? Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas). In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient. Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.” Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public. Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places. Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online. Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns. The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity. The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next 1-2 years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector. There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with. Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
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In the mid 90s, Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, and it blew our minds. Or at least one part of it did (I never managed to read much of it). In it, Gates described the Seattle home he was then building with inlaid fiber optic cables where each room would have its own unobtrusive touchpad to control the lights, music and temperature. Best of all, as you entered a room, it’d automatically customise those elements and even wall paintings (via LCD screens) based on personal preferences, all pinged via an electronic pin everyone in the house would wear. I was reminded of that moment from a quarter century ago as I listened to a recent webinar on access to the internet in India, organised by Agami, the law and justice organisation where I work. Much of Gates’ fantastic vision has become widely available today in the form of mobile phones, smart devices and apps – all of them powered by the internet, and what he then romantically called the Information Highway. Now in our elastically wrenching world, Gates is having another moment of prescience (as well as right-wing data hacks and conspiracy theories), this time with brighter sweaters and a thinner, papery voice. Whatever you think of him, he did baldly predict in his 2015 TED talk that “the greatest risk of global catastrophe” was not nuclear war but “most likely a highly infectious virus...not missiles but microbes”. The march of the internet into our lives, taking over every aspect and every hour, is so ubiquitous it doesn't need much emphasis or spelling out. And concurrently, neither does the fact that as more than a fifth of humanity frets under some form of lockdown and the rest practices swivel-eyed social distancing, we are all keeping up some semblance of normalcy by going online. A recent survey found that internet browsing shot up by 72 percent in the first week of lockdown in India. Online is where we are all talking and conferencing and texting, sharing parody videos, moving our money, dropping out of online courses, asking doctors about pulse oximeters, damning house cleaning bloggers, thanking recipe writers for using metric measurements, rediscovering celebrities for their shenanigans and, of course, unquenchably consuming the news and ordering more and more supplies even as we feel all Zoomed out. The new economy is not so new anymore, and it’s vital to say this aloud: Our economy is now vastly inaccessible without the internet. All the platforms, gateways and content are useless without it. Yet according to government data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), only about half of Indians have access to the basic broadband speed of 512 Kbps or more. Last year’s IAMAI-Nielsen study found an even wider gap of only 36 percent of Indians having internet access in the first place. And only a third of them are women. This is not a digital divide anymore. This is a digital ditch. Which means, half to two-thirds of the country are in an economic ditch. Much of the high speed and reliable networks have been first laid in urban centres, and the work on Digital India programmes has not kept pace with the gradually devolving economy or the current COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps some of this slowness is due to decision makers still not quite accepting that the internet has moved this fast from being a useful luxury to an essential resource? Or is it more of a lingering bias that rural or disadvantaged Indians just don't need as much internet as people like us? Either way, the numbers tell a different story. Of all ‘regular users’ in India (who accessed the internet in the last 30 days), 40 percent are actually rural users – and that base is growing much faster than the urban one. More than 50 percent of rural customers are willing to go online to buy goods. Two thirds of all existing Indian internet users are in the 12-29 year age group, and in general this age group resides much more in rural than urban India. Data usage in rural India increased by almost 100 percent during the lockdown. And all this when rural internet penetration stands at only 27 percent (versus 51 percent in urban areas). In January, the Supreme Court declared access to the internet a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution. This was in response to a plea on the internet blockade in Jammu & Kashmir since last summer’s revoking of Article 370. Since then, there has been only partial lifting of the digital ban there – only 2G speeds for postpaid mobiles while prepaid sims still have to get verified – despite mounting reports that lack of high-speed internet is hobbling the medical community and accelerating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, as well as Rahul Matthan, Partner at Trilegal law firm, criticised such internet shutdowns at the Agami webinar. They both cited similar metaphors comparing the internet today to essential services like water and electricity, and how authorities don’t switch them off to some citizens when convenient. Now, the internet has thankfully been deemed an essential service by the Home Ministry during the national lockdown, but there doesn’t seem much more on the government’s agenda here. “I don't think the [central] government has realised how critical this infrastructure is,” Aruna Sundararajan, former Telecom Secretary of India, said at the webinar. “I served on the COVID taskforce in Kerala and we devoted a whole chapter to seeing how to ensure internet services wouldn’t get disrupted, how there’d [actually] be a 30-40 percent increase in availability. We put in suggestions that people who normally don’t have access somehow need to be given it because they’re the ones who need it the most.” Governments and companies worldwide are hustling to ensure that their citizens remain online. Chile is offering a “solidarity plan" for affordable internet in partnership with private companies, while Thailand has granted 10 GB of free data to mobile users. Egypt has given free SIM cards to students and borne the cost of a 20 percent increase in all subscribers' monthly downloads. In the US, the telecom regulator negotiated with more than 50 major internet providers to get them to agree to suspend data and speed caps, suspend shutoffs and late fees, waive installation fees, provide free service and other schemes for low-income users and open Wi-Fi hotspots for the public. Meanwhile, the major telecom and broadband companies in India have offered some initiatives like free incoming calls to low-income users, Airtel and BSNL have provided extended mobile validity and Rs 10 talktime free, while Jio Phone users have got 100 minutes and 100 SMS free. Meanwhile, ACT Fibernet has offered free upgrades of unlimited data and 300 Mbps speed, Jio Fiber has offered free 10 Mbps connections to new users and double data to existing ones, and Jio has offered free broadband in some places. Some say that in this crisis, the Indian government needs to pitch in much more such as reduce red tape to enable telecom companies to build capacity fast, incentivise them to increase data limits and subsidise costs, and even use disaster relief funds to build public Wi-Fi zones. There were a host of other solutions proposed at the webinar as well. Sundararajan said the government must build the infrastructure for 4G access for all Indians – and pointed out that this is actually possible in just 6-12 months – as well as finish the incomplete project to lay fiber optic cables for 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Sundararajan and Apar Gupta, Executive Director of Internet Freedom Foundation, also recommended that the pending Data Protection Bill be enacted to address cybersecurity concerns as citizens go online. Justice Ahmed suggested engaging the local Legal Services Authorities across the country to provide internet and justice access to their constituencies, while Matthan emphasised the right to broadband rather than just internet as a more realistic need today. Gupta recommended voluntary pledges by telecom companies to not disconnect connections for non-payment during this crisis, actualising a network neutrality enforcement mechanism in telecom licenses for private entities, and regulatory reform in telecom suspension rules to guard against internet shutdowns. The non-profit Jan Sahas has reported that a significant proportion of the distress calls they’re receiving are actually requests to recharge mobile phone accounts. “In the next 12-24 months we’ll have restrictions of some kind,” said Sundararajan, “and the need for internet is only going to exponentially accelerate.” We can’t meaningfully talk about justice for the offline world anymore, given its sharp marginalisation from most mainstream social, political and economic activity. The fact is that those of us in the information or service economies are not the only ones who need the internet, not anymore. For most of this century, all Indians have needed it to lead fuller and fully connected lives; the big difference in the last few years is that we now also need it to be fuller consumers. And in a landscape that promises to be socially distanced for the next 1-2 years, all of us need it whether we are in the organised or unorganised sector. There is the case of access to justice, and there is the case for access to a healthy life. Getting all citizens online is surely the one reliable way to unite them in following mandates for the greater good while giving them a way to access basic needs. And getting everyone online would also surely create a permanent resource to help the Indian economy leap away from the cliff it’s getting overfamiliar with. Gaurav Jain is a writer, editor and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital feminist portal The Ladies Finger and the award-winning boutique media house Grist Media. He works at Agami, an organisation that inspires and enables ideas for law and justice.
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Reliance Rozana Data Offer 2018: Get 1GB 3G FREE Internet Daily
Reliance Rozana Data Offer 2018
Reliance Rozana Data Offer 2018: Get Flat 1GB 3G Internet Daily
Reliance Rozana 3G Internet Data Offer:
Get free Reliance 1GB 3G Internet Data every day. If you want to activate this offer you have to recharge your reliance sim for Rs 193 and get free 3G/2G data pack. This offer is similar to Jio, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL, and Idea Rs 300 + offer and Reliance providing the same thing in Just Rs 193. Go and Recharge your sim and get 1GB 3G High-Speed Internet data. Remind that Reliance rozana offer is giving 1gb daily internet per day and unlimited calling for 28 days. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
How to Get Reliance Data Offer: Get 1GB 3G Internet Daily
This data plan is easy to get just look below and recharge with rs 193 and get maximum benefits. You can look that benefits which are included in this recharge pack.
Price (MRP)
Rs. 193
Free Internet Data Benefits
1GB 3G High Speed free internet data daily for 24 hours (Auto-Renew like Jio).
Free Calling
Free 30 Minute local and STD calls to all networks across the country.
Plan Validity
The pack has a validity of 28 days which when starts from the day of recharge.
Regions
Valid on PAN India basis.
Reliance Rozana Offer For Unlimited Free 3G LTE Internet Daily: Get Free 1 Month Data Recharge
This data plan is valid for all Reliance users of India. They can grab this opportunity to enjoy the free 1gb internet and 30 minutes voice call which is coming with 30 days validity. Many operators giving similar data plans in Ra 300 + but Reliance is giving the same pack in Just Rs 193. So there is no confusion that which data offer is best and cheap. Recharge your reliance sim and get unlimited 3g internet with high-speed data.
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Grab Reliance Other 4G Plans:
Reliance Rs 193 Plan:
This Data Plan gives you 1GB data per day and 30 minutes of the voice call to an operator for 28 days.
Reliance Shangun Data Plan Rs 101:
This is Reliance Rs 101 plan, after recharge, you will get both voice and data benefits+ Rs 50 Talk time. This plan is validity is 28 days from the date of recharge.
How to Get a Free Reliance Sim Card
Firstly Buy a Jio Phone.
You will Get a Reliance Jio sim card.
After complete all Process, You will get High-Speed Reliance Jio Internet data for 3 Month.
Reliance Jio Free internet daily limit is 1GB per day.
After 1Gb speed will be reduced to 128kb per second.
Use This Free data service without paying zero(0) rupees to the operator.
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Reliance Rs 147 data plan is also giving 1GB data for every day for 28 days. Like the Jio recharge packs, so finally we got that Reliance is one of the best operators which is giving best recharge deals in mobile or sim operators. So guys don’t confuse all the offer are best but Reliance offering best and cheap deals so grab this Rozana 2017 offer and enjoy high-speed 3g data without any net issue.
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VODAFONE USSD Codes List – Talktime, Balance, Offers and Plans!
Hi, we have compiled a fresh and updated List of All Vodafone USSD Codes for 2G, 3G and 4G Vodafone Networks. You can dial these USSD codes to Check Balance, Offers, Plans, Alerts and lot more.
Vodafone USSD Codes LIST
USSD is an acronym of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, is a protocol (set of rules). Now without wasting your precious time – Just check below and enjoy!
USSD Code Description *111*2# or *141# Vodafone Main Balance Checking USSD Code *111*6*2# Check GPRS or Vodafone Internet Balance USSd Code *157# Checks free SMS balance *156# Check free Minutes in you Vodafone SIM *146# Check validity of your Number *111*2# Check Mobile number with main balance *123# Vodafone Alert *121# Best fit offers *111*5*2# Know 3G data card balance 131*<Amount><Receiver mobile no># balance transfer from one phone to other
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Vodafone USSD Code For Internet Services
Here is the USSD code list for Vodafone to get you Internet Pack recharged (*charges apply accordingly)
USSD codes Description *444*5# Activate One day Internet *444*8# Rs 8, 20 Mb 3G plan *121*05# 1 day GPRS 2G pack *121*14# 3 Days GPRS pack 2G *121*25# 7 Days GPRS pack *121*49# 15 days GPRS pack *121*98# 1 Month GPRS pack *121*851# 5 GB 1 month 3G GPRS pack *121*1251# 8 GB 1 month 3G GPRS pack
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USSD Code List for Other Operators
If you have more than one mobile number then you must be interested in knowing USSD Codes of those mobile service operators as well. Here is the list:
All USSD Codes List for Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Reliance, Jio, Telenor, BSNL, Docomo, MTNL, Videocon
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More on Vodafone!
We have written more stuff on Vodafone that you might be interested in checking out! Please find the articles on aircel linked below.
How to Take Loan in Vodafone?
How to Check Vodafone Internet Balance (2G/3G Net)
How to Transfer Balance in Vodafone?
Disclaimer and Conclusion
Vodafone USSD Codes list is very useful and helps us to avail or check other services without making any effort (i.e. going to authorized dealer, service center, or downloading app).
All the above furnished Vodafone USSD codes i for 2g and 3g 2015 are true to our best knowledge, we suggest you to kindly tally them with official website too.
We do not hold any responsibility for any inconveniences or losses incurred due to above Vodafone USSD codes, again we suggest you to cross check them with official site.
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AIRTEL USSD Codes List- Check Talktime Balance, Offers & Plans!
Hello AIRTEL prepaid user, I have created a fresh list of Airtel USSD Codes for you. You can use these USSD codes for variety of purpose such as checking balance or taking talktime or taking loan in Airtel. Plus, you can also check latest and new Offers, Plans and Alerts available for you.
Updated Airtel USSD Codes LIST
USSD is an acronym of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, is a protocol (set of rules). Now, let’s get into the available list of Airtel USSD Codes. Try them and enjoy!
*121*7# Then type 1 and process*121*7# Then type 2 and process*121*7# Then type 3 and process*121*7# Then type 5 and process*121*7# Then type 6 and process*121*8# Then type 1 and process for Activation process 1 Again*121*8# Then type 4 and process*121*8# Then type 5 and process*121*8# Then type 7 and process.
Airtel Mobile Balance Check Code (Airtel Balance check code). *123# or *121*1# Airtel USSD Codes for finding your Own Mobile Number. *121*1# or *121*9# Airtel Mobile Balance Check Code *121*2# Airtel Mobile Number Validity Check Code (Airtel Validity check code). *121*2# Airtel Mobile 3G Internet Balance Check Code. *121*2# Airtel Mobile Recharge Coupon Code (Airtel recharge code) *121*3# Airtel USSD code for Hello Tune *121*4# Airtel Active Services Check Code *121*5# Airtel Digital TV account Detail *121*6# or Miss Call on 8130081300 From your Registered number Airtel Last 5 Charge Check Code (Airtel last 5 charge check code). Airtel Value Added Service Check Code (Airtel value added service check code). Airtel Last 5 Charge on Voice Check Code. Airtel Last SMS/MMS Detail Check Code *121*7# Then type 4 and process Airtel 5 Last Internet Data Deduction Detail (Airtel last 5 Data check code). Airtel Last 5 Recharge Detail (Airtel last 5 recharge check code) Airtel 2G Cyber Cafe For 1 HourPack Rs.9 (Airtel Balance check code). Airtel All 2G Internet Pack Details *121*8# Then type 2 and process Airtel All 3G/4G Internet Pack Details *121*8# Then type 3 and process Airtel 2G/3G Internet Data Loan Code (Airtel Data loan code). Airtel Unlimited Validity Pack Details (Airtel Balance check code). Airtel Free Wynk Detail *121*8# Then type 6 and process Airtel Voice Packs Detail. Airtel 50 L+N SMS Pack *121*10# Then type 2 and process ( Get 50 Loc+STD SMS/1day @Rs 5. Pack benefit will be applicable for max 100 SMS/day. Airtel 10 Local and STD minute Pack . *121*8# Then type 3 and process ( Get 10 Local+STD minutes @ Rs 5. Valid till today midnight. Airtel 50 A2A minute Pack . *121*8# Then type 4 and process. ( Get 50 A2A Local Night Calls 11PM-6am @ Rs 5. Valid till for 1day. Airtel [email protected] (20MB/day) *121*8# Then type 5 and process Airtel SMS Packs Detail . *121*8# Then type 8 and process. Airtel Local Aircel to Aircel minute check Code . *123*1# Airtel Local SMS balance Check Code *123*2# Airtel Local and STD SMS Balance Check Code . *123*3# or *123*7# Airtel Dedicated Account Balance Check Code . *123*4# Airtel Free STD Minutes Balance check code *123*8# USSD Code to check Local Airtel to Airtel Minutes Balance. *123*1# Airtel SMS Balance Check code . *123*7# Airtel USSD Codes to Check Airtel 2G Internet Balance Check Code (Airtel Internet balance check). *123*10# Airtel USSD Code to Check Airtel 3G Data Balance (Airtel 3G Internet balance check). *123*11#
These Airtel USSD Codes and the services associated them gets updated frequently. I suggest you to kindly cross-check them with official list or call the customer care. Thanks for your understanding!
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All Other Airtel USSD Codes
Airtel Loan USSD Code Dial *141*10# Airtel money USSD Code. Airtel my offer USSD Code *121# Airtel Own Mobile Number USSD Code. *282# or *121*9# Airtel Twitter Service *515# Airtel Facebook Service. *325# Airtel Mobile Number Portability SMS PORT to 1909 Airtel Hello Tune. *678# Airtel Balance Transfer Code *141# and then choose your options
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Airtel Special Offers
If you are looking for special offers from Airtel, then you should dial following Airtel USSD code.
*141# (Airtel Gift Service)
*222# (Special Five Offers)
How to check Airtel Offer of the day?
There are plenty of offers given by Airtel. And they keep updating their offers, which you can check by dialing following Airtel USSD codes. You can also check My Airtel, My Offer.
*141# (Airtel Gift Service)
*222# (Special Five Offers)
How to check Main Balance in Airtel?
If you are curious about the remaining talktime/ main balance in your Airtel sim, then – just dial the following USSD Codes.
*123# (Balance Check Number)
*125*5# (SMS Balance)
Check Airtel Net Balance 3G/4G/2G
Hey, if you use 2G/3G or 4G Internet from Airtel. Then you can check your remaining Internet data balance by dialing following Airtel USSD Code.
*123*11# (3G Data Balance)
*123*10# (Check GPRS/2G Data)
*123*7# (Check GPRS/2G Data)
USSD Code List for Other Operators
If you have more than one mobile number then you must be interested in knowing USSD Codes of those mobile service operators as well. Here is the list:
All USSD Codes List for Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Reliance, Jio, Telenor, BSNL, Docomo, MTNL, Videocon
More on Airtel!
We have written more stuff on Airtel that you might be interested in checking out! Please find the articles on airtel linked below.
Airtel Loan (USSD Code for Talktime & Internet Balance)
Check Airtel Internet Balance
Airtel Balance Transfer
Disclaimer and Conclusion
Airtel USSD Codes are comes very handy and can be used to avail different services anytime from anywhere. We don’t have to go to Airtel authorized dealer or service center to use these USSD Codes.
All the above furnished Airtel USSD codes are valid to our best knowledge, but I suggest you to kindly cross them with Airtel official website list.
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VODAFONE USSD Codes List – Talktime, Balance, Offers and Plans!
Hi, we have compiled a fresh and updated List of All Vodafone USSD Codes for 2G, 3G and 4G Vodafone Networks. You can dial these USSD codes to Check Balance, Offers, Plans, Alerts and lot more.
Vodafone USSD Codes LIST
USSD is an acronym of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, is a protocol (set of rules). Now without wasting your precious time – Just check below and enjoy!
USSD Code Description *111*2# or *141# Vodafone Main Balance Checking USSD Code *111*6*2# Check GPRS or Vodafone Internet Balance USSd Code *157# Checks free SMS balance *156# Check free Minutes in you Vodafone SIM *146# Check validity of your Number *111*2# Check Mobile number with main balance *123# Vodafone Alert *121# Best fit offers *111*5*2# Know 3G data card balance 131*<Amount><Receiver mobile no># balance transfer from one phone to other
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Vodafone USSD Code For Internet Services
Here is the USSD code list for Vodafone to get you Internet Pack recharged (*charges apply accordingly)
USSD codes Description *444*5# Activate One day Internet *444*8# Rs 8, 20 Mb 3G plan *121*05# 1 day GPRS 2G pack *121*14# 3 Days GPRS pack 2G *121*25# 7 Days GPRS pack *121*49# 15 days GPRS pack *121*98# 1 Month GPRS pack *121*851# 5 GB 1 month 3G GPRS pack *121*1251# 8 GB 1 month 3G GPRS pack
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USSD Code List for Other Operators
If you have more than one mobile number then you must be interested in knowing USSD Codes of those mobile service operators as well. Here is the list:
All USSD Codes List for Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Reliance, Jio, Telenor, BSNL, Docomo, MTNL, Videocon
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More on Vodafone!
We have written more stuff on Vodafone that you might be interested in checking out! Please find the articles on aircel linked below.
How to Take Loan in Vodafone?
How to Check Vodafone Internet Balance (2G/3G Net)
How to Transfer Balance in Vodafone?
Disclaimer and Conclusion
Vodafone USSD Codes list is very useful and helps us to avail or check other services without making any effort (i.e. going to authorized dealer, service center, or downloading app).
All the above furnished Vodafone USSD codes i for 2g and 3g 2015 are true to our best knowledge, we suggest you to kindly tally them with official website too.
We do not hold any responsibility for any inconveniences or losses incurred due to above Vodafone USSD codes, again we suggest you to cross check them with official site.
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