August 15, 1995 is an important day in India. Internet access was made available on that special day by VSNL (now part of Tata Communications). For the past few days, many articles have been published about the 25th anniversary of the internet in India. It is good to see the people behind bringing the internet […]
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Nearly 50% of India’s population has access to the internet in 2019: KPMG Report
The recently released report from KPMG titled “India’s Digital Future: India’s Media and Entertainment Report 2019” has covered various topics that would interest internet entrepreneurs in India. To begin with some basic numbers – India has a population of 1.3 billion with a teledensity of 91% with 1.7 billion mobile connections and 700 million unique subscribers. The […]
Will India see the next internet inflection point with Jio Fiber’s launch?
Almost 4 years ago I wrote about the effect of Jio on mobile internet. The entire digital ecosystem in benefited in a big way from Reliance Jio. Every internet venture in India saw a huge surge in their mobile traffic, which unfortunately did not translate to an increase in revenues in the same proportion. Will […]
46% of online Indians primarily consumed local language content: Mary Meeker
cross IndiaIt is that time of the year. The entire internet eco-system wants to read Mary Meeker’s annual internet report. This year there has been a substantial focus on India (55 slides – slide 232 to 287). Internet penetration is at 27%, 355 million of 1.3 billion in India are online (there is still a lot […]
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio sets the date for India’s internet inflection point
In 2010, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) promised India a wireless broadband revolution. India is expected to see the launch of 4G by 2012, but as expected, all such big projects get delayed. We expected to see the internet inflection point by 2014 (what is inflection point). India is confident of seeing an explosion in its internet user base in India because […]