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BENGALURU - Costlier smartphones appear to have stalled the increase in new Internet connections in India, one of the world’s largest online markets, according to the latest data from India’s telecommunications regulator. After nearly a decade of adding Internet users at a rapid rate, the number of mobile data users, the country’s biggest section of Internet users, has been stuck at under 800 million for two years now. Statistics from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) show that the country had 837 million Internet subscriptions as at June 2022, of which 92 per cent were mobile broadband connections. Trai...
