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by nimish 858 days ago
They severely restricted the buying of SIM cards after the Mumbai terror attacks on the flimsy basis that the terrorists used cell phones to coordinate them .

In practice it means that it's a massive pain to get a local number when visiting family.

VOIP intra-country is also illegal, but it's not clear if that's regulatory capture or for similar "national security" grounds.

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> it's not clear if that's regulatory capture or for similar "national security" grounds

The reason given doesn't matter that much... they give whatever reason they think most people will approve.