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On 31 July 1995, erstwhile Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram and then Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu made the first call to each other on a hand-held phone.

At a fixed broadband speed of 20.72 megabits per second (Mbps), India stands at 67th in rankings, which is below the average download speed of 42.71 Mbps worldwide.

Tariff and plans are under forbearance, and we don’t generally intervene. But if there is sufficient money in the account and despite that, people are being told that the services will be disconnected, it is not correct.”

Across rural Chhattisgarh, cellular network penetration used to be the lowest in the country at 29 per cent and almost three-fourths of households remained unconnected under the telecom network.