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• In India, the evolution started with the introduction of the telegraph in 1850.

• In 1933, radiotelephone system was inaugurated between UK and India.
• The first STD call was made between Kanpur and Lucknow in 1960.
• 1980 saw the first satellite Earth Station at Sikanderabad
• The mobile telephone service and pagers successfully entered India in 1984.
• In 1995, India shook hands with the Internet.
• One of the important years for telecommunication in India was 1997 as the
government set up the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI)
• Bsnl declared 2007 as the broadband year of India and in 2008 India saw the
3G arena.
• India uses both Global system for mobile communication (GSM) and code-
division multiple access (CDMA) technologies.
• The user base in India is constantly increasing. There were 324.89 million
users of the Internet in India in 2017. With coming up of Jio in India, 4G data
accessibility and coverage have increased in India. Mobile tariffs have
dropped down considerably and as a result of this 85% of the population of
India is said to be covered by 2018 for using the internet.
• The Prime minister has a vision of digital India and the revolutions in the
telecommunication sector are only going to make this possible.
• The modern telecommunication technologies in India have made e-
governance and education of masses possible.
• But at the same time, there are some bottlenecks. We have 4G in India but
we do not enjoy actual ‘4G speeds’. While other countries are planning for 5G,
we still do not have adequate infrastructure for proper 4G. India still has a long
way to go.

Future expectations

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