Categories: Internet

India userbase: Internet 100m, Mobile internet 40m

If any organization can give an accurate, or almost accurate, statistics of internet users in India, it has to be Google. Every PC & mobile internet user uses Google, they could surely even categorize the demography of internet users in India.

According to Rajan Anandan, VP-Sales & Operations at Google India, who was speaking at VCCircle Ecommerce Forum 2011 (via Medianama),

100 million internet users (40m from work, 30m from cafes, 11m households have broadband)
An average internet user spends 16 hours a week.
40 million mobile internet users
30 million mobile apps are downloaded every week!
By 2015 India may have 300 million mobile internet users (which will be bigger than PC internet)

I still believe the quality of internet access must increase even in Tier-1 cities like Bangalore. Last weekend I was at a place which was 5 km away from Bangalore’s e-hub Electronic city. The internet was unusable on a Reliance Broadband+, I am not exaggerating – it was painfully unusable. Many localities in Bangalore don’t have quality wired broadband service.

While the mobile internet usage is growing in India, I just don’t see mobile friendly sites on Google mobile SERPs. Many portals in India, including Oneindia have a mobile friendly version but I never get to see them on Google SERPs. Disappointing.

11 million broadband subscribers in India: Nov 2010

The broadband figures are of great interest to the internet publishers community in India. We at Oneindia, study it to get a feel of how the internet is reaching the masses because we are in the Indian language space. Medianama publishes very detailed reports on a regular basis and they…

March 19, 2011

In "Broadband"

China Vs India Internet user statistics

Read recently about China's internet user base, China has 400 million internet users, accounts for 1/3rd of China's population Number of broadband users in China: 346 million Mobile internet users: 233 million Where as for India India has anywhere from 45 million to 50 million users, accounts for about 5%…

May 4, 2010

In "Mobile"

Mobile Internet in India: How big is it really?

As of September 2009 India had 471 million mobile users. The December 2009 report from IAMAI on Mobile Internet in India says, Mobile is emerging as the potential point of access for low PC and high mobile penetrated Indian market, although the present usage is restricted to 4% of total…

January 6, 2010

In "Mobile"

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.