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India orders telcos and ISPs to stop access to banned Chinese-origin apps
- Thursday | 2nd July, 2020
The websites of some of the banned apps – such as Alibaba’s UC News – were no longer accessible from some internet networks in India. While Bytedance moved to block TikTok in India soon after the government’s announcement, several other banned apps were still available for download. And for apps already downloaded on phones in India, in coming days the telecom companies will find ways to make them unusable, three industry sources said. “It’s very tough to block (downloaded apps), takes time,” said one of the telecom sources. Among the most popular of the banned apps was ByteDance’s video app TikTok which counted India as its top growth market accounting for 30% of its 2 billion global downloads.
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