India is the next internet frontier (2018)

Re:India is the next internet frontier (2018) by prtsh on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:39PM (#22392197)

factual error - "almost a third of the unconnected are in India". It should be "almost a quarter of the unconnected are in india.". 0.9B of 3.5B.

There are ~550M internet users in India (2019), that leaves out ~750 million unconnected users. 150M less than 0.9B.

There are other factual errors as well. Real sloppy journalism.

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Re:India is the next internet frontier (2018) by prtsh on Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:05PM (#22393011)

Let's try to have a healthy criticism here, both sides, starting with the article in hand. There is no denying that India is at the frontier, but at least we can maintain a basic level of sanity when it comes to quantifying by how much "India is at the forefront".

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Re:India is the next internet frontier (2018) by kumarm on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:54PM (#22392280)

The article is from 2018 as mentioned in title.

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Re:India is the next internet frontier (2018) by prtsh on Saturday February 22, 2020 @02:48PM (#22392917)

2018? then it is "even more" incorrect.

What's up with the downvotes? The journalist hasn't done the math and has blown up the numbers to increase the significance of the article. This is a real pervasive problem.

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