Tier-II cities overtake cities in net usage

Today’s DNA (Nov 22, 2009) carried an interesting article “Towns overtake cities in net usage“. Few interesting findings,

• Students from Mysore and Mangalore are more net savvy their counter parts from Bangalore
• The results show that 90% students in tier-II cities used computers daily as opposed to 77% in tier-I cities.
• Nearly 100% of students from Tier-I had an email account, where as 74% of the students from Tier-II had an email account.
• 71% of the students in Tier-II cities login every day, compared to just 62% in the metros.

While just 1000 students were polled for this survey in Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore, it surely shows Tier-II user base is going to be the driving force in internet usage in India.

Only if we had a dedicated Internet Minister – penetration would have been far higher.