This article was written in 2000 by INDAX, a Canadian-owned, India-based Internet service that develops and designs websites for clients around the world. It is obvious that the biggest problem with the article is that it is not current. The statistics it provides have changed tremendously in the last ten years. After all, it was written only a couple of years after VSNL, a government-owned Internet Service Provider, ended its monopoly. Another major issue is that the writer doesn't cite any of the facts, figures or estimates he uses. For example, he states, "By the end of 1998, after three years of government monopoly, there were barely 150,000 Internet connections in India...Users are now estimated at over 2 million, with a growth predicted to reach 50 million in the next five years" without indicating where he obtains this information. The writer's perception of Net demand is quite inaccurate as well. He is incredibly pessimistic about the future of Internet growth in India because of the "miserly bandwidth" and "overextended" telephone network at the time. Using loaded terminology, he states that the "antiquated infrastructure and government obstructionism" will cause India to fall behind developed countries and not enter the global community. Even though Internet services is still quite expensive and penetration has risen only marginally from less than 1% in 2000 to 7% in 2009 (InternetWorldStats.com), its telecommunication industry is the fastest-growing in the world as of July 2010 (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).
http://www.indax.com/internet.html
Good job on both the "good" and "bad" sites. You actually bring up a good point about why a site may not be good because its content is out of date. This means that the information itself may be accurate, just no longer applicable. A good thing to note in this class for the future.
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