{"id":35880,"date":"2021-01-08T18:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35880"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:28:43","slug":"india-lost-2-8b-due-to-internet-shutdowns-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35880","title":{"rendered":"India lost $2.8b due to internet shutdowns in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: With 8,927 hours of blacked out or restricted internet access, India topped the list of 21 countries that curbed the citizens&#8217; web access in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns report released by Top10VPN, India accounted for nearly three-quarters of the $4 billion lost worldwide to internet curbs as the country recorded a loss of $2.8 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report said there were 1,655 hours of internet blackouts and 7,272 hours of throttled bandwidth which cost India $2,779.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As in previous years, India continued to restrict internet access more than any other country \u2013 over 75 times in 2020,&#8221; read the report. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The true economic cost is therefore likely to be even higher than the $2.8BN we have calculated,&#8221; it added. (PTK)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: With 8,927 hours of blacked out or restricted internet access, India topped the list of 21 countries that curbed the citizens&#8217; web access in 2020. According to the Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns report released by Top10VPN, India accounted for nearly three-quarters of the $4 billion lost worldwide to internet curbs as the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}