Rajesh Chharia

Even as the government has said Internet Service Providers were free not to block any of the 857 websites suspected for pornographic content unless they were abusive of children, the industry body of the ISPs said on Wednesday that the directive was "vague and unimplementable".

World's most popular free email providers Gmail and Yahoo have made telephone number mandatory for creation of new email addresses in a bid to check spam.

Using the Internet may become costlier by up to 30 per cent as the Department of Telecom (DoT) today issued corrigendum to the new telecom licences agreement bringing revenue from these services under its cess net.

Even as the government has said Internet Service Providers were free not to block any of the 857 websites suspected for pornographic content unless they were abusive of children, the industry body of the ISPs said on Wednesday that the directive was "vague and unimplementable".

World's most popular free email providers Gmail and Yahoo have made telephone number mandatory for creation of new email addresses in a bid to check spam.

Using the Internet may become costlier by up to 30 per cent as the Department of Telecom (DoT) today issued corrigendum to the new telecom licences agreement bringing revenue from these services under its cess net.