Authors: Neeti Biyani, Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari, Akriti Bopanna, Internet Society Prateek Waghre, Anushka Jain, Internet Freedom Foundation Contributors: Rajnesh D. Singh, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Carl Gahnberg, Ryan Polk, Susannah Gray, Internet Society Abstract In September 2022, the Government of India’s Department of Telecommunications released a draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 for public consultation….
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