Mobile internet services were suspended in Jammu region ahead of a wrestling match, the venue for which is disputed between two communities, and experienced violence in 2014 as well.

Over a controversial issue, mobile internet services were suspended in the Poonch district on 22nd June, 2016 on operational and security grounds and to prevent law and order situations and were restored on the same day.

Mobile internet services were suspended in the entire state after a youth resorted to vandalization and desecration of a temple in Jammu, that led to a spur of violence in the region on 15th June, 2016. The services were reportedly restored on 18th June, 2016.

Mobile internet services and bulk SMS were blocked in Rohtak on 5th June, 2016 to curb the use of social media from instigating violence in the Jat agitation, along with the prolonged shut down in Sonipat.

Mobile internet services were blocked in Sonipat, Haryana on 4th June, 2016 until further notice to prevent spread of misinformation prior to the agitation organized by the Jat community on 5th June, 2016

In Azamgarh, local administration resorted to suspension of mobile & broadband services from 16th May, 2016 to 18th May, 2016 as a precautionary measure to check the outbreak of riots due to communal tension in the area.

Pursuant to the Patel reservation agitation, mobile internet sevices were suspended in various parts of Gujarat on 17th April, 2016 and restored on 19th April, 2016

Subsequent to the communal clashes in the town of Bokaro during the celebration of Ram Navami, internet services were cut off from 16th April, 2016 to 18th April, 2016 to prevent use of social media as a tool for spreading communal fear and hatred.

To check rumor mongering about an incident that led to death of 4 people in a firing by security forces, mobile internet services were suspended in the area on 14th April, 2016 and restored on 18th April, 2016.

Mobile internet services were suspended in various districts in Haryana as a prohibitory measure in light of the possible re-agitation of the Jat community for classification as Other Backward Classes (OBC) on 18th March, 2016 and restored on the same day