{"id":223312,"date":"2023-01-20T20:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223312"},"modified":"2023-02-20T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:22:35","slug":"internet-blues-for-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/internet-blues-for-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet blues for media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<strong>Internet blues for media\u201d published in <\/strong><strong>Business Standard <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>20<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 IT and Computer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>reasons behind declining internet users in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: There has been a decrease in the use of the internet by the people. This article discusses the reasons behind low consumption of the internet by Indians.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the reason behind low use of the internet in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>prices of smartphones have gone up<\/strong> due to the chip shortage in the market and due to the supply constraints.<\/p>\n<p>As per the <strong>IDC data<\/strong>, the Indian smartphone market declined 10 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2022. This was the lowest third-quarter figure since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of smartphones have also <strong>affected the internet growth in India<\/strong> because a smartphone is the first way into the internet and a primary device to go online.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What will be the effect of low use of the internet in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It will have <strong>ripple effects <\/strong>and its effects will be felt across sectors, including education and banking.<\/p>\n<p>It will also <strong>affect online advertising<\/strong> because if fewer people will be online there will be fewer views on the advertisement which will bring uncertainty for both advertisers and digital businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the <strong>number of people using broadband has remained at the same level<\/strong> for two years now.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India <strong>(TRAI<\/strong>) data, internet growth fell down by 4 percent in 2021 and by June 2022 the growth in internet subscribers was less than 1 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to the telecom analysts, the chip capacity will improve in the second half of 2023. This will ease the demand-supply situation making chips accessible for entry-level smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the price of smartphones will fall with more people getting access to phones and the internet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cInternet blues for media\u201d published in Business Standard on\u00a020th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 IT and Computer Relevance: reasons behind declining internet users in India News: There has been a decrease in the use of the internet by the people. This article discusses the reasons behind low&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/internet-blues-for-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet blues for media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-223312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704701169},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}