Srinagar, Feb. 3 -- More than a week after government restored a severely constrained access to internet, people are finding out that it has made little difference to their lives. A 2G connection has turned out to be just enough to access email. It is not enough to even open the sites whitelisted by the government. On the other hand, government has not restored the broadband service which although also expected to be similarly restrained would at least have had a better signal strength. Until that happens, the 2G mobile service hardly addresses communication blackout that was in force for the past six months, billed as the world's longest internet blockade in a democracy.

As of now there's no telling when the government will improve the ...