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India's government last week released a draft telco law that defines all over-the-top services as telecoms providers and therefore makes them subject to the same regulations imposed on carriers.

The draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 [PDF] defines a telecommunications service as including "Broadcasting services, electronic mail, voice mail, voice, video and data communication services" delivered over fixed or mobile networks.

Amazon Web Services last week announced its Polly text-to-speech service can speak Cantonese.

India's IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar reportedly said India can expect $25 billion of inbound investment thanks to a $10 billion incentive scheme that promotes local semiconductor and panel display manufacturing.

India has since removed the ceiling on incentives offered to display manufacturers.

In late August, India set a target of quadrupling local electronics manufacturing to $300 billion by 2026.

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