{"id":226352,"date":"2023-02-13T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226352"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:15:50","slug":"new-broadband-definition-highlights-the-plight-of-indias-barely-connected-grey-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-broadband-definition-highlights-the-plight-of-indias-barely-connected-grey-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"New broadband definition highlights the plight of India\u2019s barely connected \u201cgrey spots\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cNew broadband definition highlights the plight of India\u2019s barely connected grey spots\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>13th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the definition of broadband was upgraded to mandate a minimum speed of 2Mbps. But telecom companies rarely prioritize the connectivity of users in small towns with a few overloaded towers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are White and Grey spots?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Places without cellular connectivity at all are called \u201c<\/span><b>white spots\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Places which show simply being \u201cconnected\u201d but may not let users get enough out of their access are called \u201c<\/span><b>Grey Spots\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the definition of Broadband?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has revised the definition of broadband connectivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the new definition, <\/span><b>Broadband <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a data connection that is able to support interactive services, including internet access and has the capability of the minimum <\/span><b>download speed of 2 Mbps<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to an individual subscriber from the point of presence (POP) of the service provider intending to provide broadband service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">definition of broadband connectivity now requires a minimum download speed of 2 Mbps (megabits per second).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Earlier, the minimum download speed was previously 512 kbps (kilobits per second).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNew broadband definition highlights the plight of India\u2019s barely connected grey spots\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th February 2023. What is the News? Recently, the definition of broadband was upgraded to mandate a minimum speed of 2Mbps. But telecom companies rarely prioritize the connectivity of users&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-broadband-definition-highlights-the-plight-of-indias-barely-connected-grey-spots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New broadband definition highlights the plight of India\u2019s barely connected \u201cgrey spots\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-226352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226352","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}