The Government’s move to reduce tariffs has been successful in many areas in voice market. Now the government of India is taking note on the high tariffs on Internet Services.

The Telecom & IT minister Dayanidhi Maran has given the clear indication that the government is going to repeat the trend in Internet services too.

For this matter, Dayanidhi Maran has it in mind to sit and talk with MTNL, BSNL and STPI to launch several server-hosting centres in India.

Maran said that

we want traffic generated in India to terminate in India rather than be routed through a server located overseas.

The costs will go down and data flow will be faster with the establishment of server hosting centers in India.

He said this at The India Digital Summit 2007. He told to attendees that his vision for a digital India was to see an India connected with a network of communication technologies through spanning optic fibre and wireless.

With this development, interaction in all 22 languages will be possible by using language-to-language machine translation and cross lingual information access facilities.

The minister has said further that India is among the top six nations using the Internet in various services with high double-digit annual growth. But the top three websites are all .com websites and their server based in European countries.

According to the minister, India has projected growth rate of 0.62% of the website hosting market. Websites with servers based in would put India among the top 10 web hosting nations.

India has declared the years 2007 as the Year of Broadband. This year, the government has set a target for broadband coverage across all secondary and higher secondary schools, public healthcare centres and grampanchayats in India.

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