Internet in India
The news about mobile penetration in India is not new. India is witnessing an increase in mobile internet usage, in fact we at Oneindia see a substantial growth in our mobile traffic. The recent report by Ericsson focuses on mobile internet usage by children in urban India. Few highlights, Read more on Urban kids under 18 in India spend 40 minutes a day on mobile internet…
According to a report from Nokia Siemens Network mobile internet traffic has grown by 50% in the first half of 2012. Other important points from the report are, Read more on India has enormous appetite for consuming mobile data services on the go…
The recent global mobile trends show the bullish growth of mobile across the world. Mobile usage has been growing rampantly in every country. But what is the usage trend across the world of mobile users?
Read more on Mobile web use will overtake desktop by 2015, India has 15% of world’s mobile users…
Mobile advertising, they say is big in India (I haven’t fully experienced it yet!). I do see few banners from Indian sites on various mobile sites. When you click on it, they go directly to the PC/web version of the site. I have never understood why a company hesitates to spend a “little” money on developing a mobile friendly version of their site, after all they have showed they are thinking about the future by spending on mobile advertising. There are several tools out there which allow you to convert your website to mobile friendly site (I came across mobiSiteGalore today).
Read more on Mobile internet: Usage pattern of smartphone users…
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.
Read more on India userbase: Internet 100m, Mobile internet 40m…
