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Studies and entertainment would have been impossible
Helpful in establishing link with society and world at large
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At a time when staying indoors is the best way to survive the coronavirus pandemic, the internet has emerged as saviour for over 480 million internet users across the country. The lockdown doesn’t look quite as unbearable with the internet. Take it away and chances are urban lives will fall apart like dry cake.
It’s about work, leisure, shopping, family bonding and myriad other things as people recalibrate their lives. For every closed grocery shop, restaurant, movie hall, gym or even doctor’s appointment, the internet has an alternative ready at the click of a button.
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When living in the same city can feel more distancing than ever, it is bringing families and friends closer. Many office systems would have collapsed had the internet not made possible video calls from different parts of the city and sometimes even the country.
Pune-based Shreya Sengupta said the net is helping keep her sane in these stressful times. Video calling is the closest thing to seeing her brother and boyfriend in London after her trip to the city last month got cancelled because of the coronavirus threat.
“Internet is all I have. London has the most number of corona cases in the UK, and WhatsApp video call is the only way I know they are okay. I just literally need to see them everyday just to know they are fine, not coughing etc,” the 29-year-old instructional designer told PTI.
Over the last few weeks, social media users have been sharing screenshots of their video chat windows with friends, family and colleagues, evidence of the role the internet is playing in connecting people in these days of social distancing. Besides the usual Whatsapp, Facetime, or Facebook messenger, new apps like Zoom are making the process seamless.
The increased dependence on the internet has led to data consumption in the country going up by at least 20-30 per cent in data consumption, according to Cellular Operators” Association of India (COAI) Director General Rajan Mathews.
To help mitigate mobile and broadband network congestion, platforms like Netflix and Facebook are reducing video quality after COAI wrote to the government urging it to initiate measures to ease the burden on network infrastructure.
Mathews said last week that mobile users could do their bit by choosing to time their online activities during off-peak hours. Gurshabad Grover of the Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), however, reassured that the internet system is far from collapsing in the country.
“The internet won’t break. It is designed to be resilient, and our internet traffic gets routed around failures. There is an extremely low chance of multiple independent network failures happening simultaneously, in the absence of which any single network congestion or failure may not even be noticeable,” Grover told PTI.