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How Is India Getting Faster Internet for Everyone? 📶

India plans to increase users of the newest mobile internet from 550 million to one billion by 2030.

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Key Points

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Target: 1,000,000,000 users of fifth generation mobile internet by 2030.

Current users: 550,000,000.

India aims to lead in sixth generation mobile internet development.

Cost of one gigabyte of data fell from 268 Indian rupees in 2014 to 8 Indian rupees now.

India handles about 260 billion digital transactions each year, the most worldwide.

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The country wants to become the first to launch the next generation of mobile internet.

Data prices have dropped from many Indian rupees to just a few rupees per gigabyte.

Digital money transfers through a phone system now make up most of the world’s online payments.

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fifth generation mobile internet

the newest fast phone internet many people use now

sixth generation mobile internet

the future even faster phone internet being designed

patent

a legal right that protects an invention

Indian rupees

money used in India

gigabyte

a big amount of digital information

International Telecommunication Union

global organization that sets rules for phone and internet

Unified Payments Interface

system that lets people pay and receive money using their phones

BharatNet programme

government project to bring internet connections to many villages

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