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Maran Wants More Indian Internet Content
By: Sharon Khare   |   Jan 19,2007
Communications and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran has said that Internet, like television or newspapers, should have more local content for better penetration and adoption by the masses.

"If we look at the case of television in India, the real adoption and penetration came only when the content became local," Maran said at the inauguration of the India Digital Summit 2007, organised by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). "Internet being an interactive medium gives us great opportunity to find out what the customer wants," he said.

"We will soon launch internationalised domain names (IDN) in the Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and others, enabling local language domain names at the secondary level", said Maran.

The minister also said that servers will now be hosted in India so that the Internet traffic can be routed within the country. This will prove to be cost-effective for the service providers.

"BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd), MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd) and STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) are working together on hosting servers in the country. And this will be done within three to four months," Maran told reporters on the sidelines of the meet.

On the issue of reduction in roaming rates for mobile telephony, Maran said, "I am anxiously waiting for the roaming charges to come down."
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