According to the latest statistics released by the Internet Governance Forum, due to convene in Hyderabad a couple of days from today, India has the fourth largest number of Internet users in the world, with 81 million users. India is behind the US (220 million), China (210 million) and Japan (88.1 million). A report here in the Economic Times.
Contrast this with the figures released by the TRAI – India had 11.6 million Internet (dialup) connections by June 30th 2008. Even if we assume 14 million dialup connections by now, at 81 million users, that’s still almost 6 users per connection…on dialup. In case of broadband, India doesn’t even rank, with only 5.05 million broadband connections by the October 31st 2008.
Last year, the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International had released a report, as per which India had 32 million active Internet users, and the pointless figure of 46 million “Ever” Internet users (those who have ever used the Internet in their lifetime). Looks like it has been a rather dramatic year for the Internet business in India, with a meteoric increase in user base from 32 million to 81 million.
Accordingly, please do make the requisite changes to your powerpoint slides…but please, keep your business plans more in line with the market conditions. Do also take a lookat our Digitoon for the week. It might help take your mind off the figure of “81 million Internet users”.
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Nikhil: perhaps it’ll be a agood idea to get a perspective from IAMAI, ISPs, Reliance Webworld-like cyber-cafe chains so that there’s some clarity on what the real numbers are. Otherwise, this report will raise expectations, the next IAMAI survey will bring them down, some folks will keep changing their slides (and their projections) but it’s unlikely that things will change in reality. Just because we run virtual industries, it doesn’t mean we can’t have real numbers :-)
Nikhil: perhaps it’ll be a good idea to get a perspective from IAMAI, ISPs, Reliance Webworld-like cyber-cafe chains so that there’s some clarity on what the real numbers are. Otherwise, this report will raise expectations, the next IAMAI survey will bring them down, some folks will keep changing their slides (and their projections) but it’s unlikely that things will change in reality. Just because we run virtual industries, it doesn’t mean we can’t have real numbers :-)
Hi
Is there any system through which we can know the usage of Internet by Indian users? I think these are the usage of Internet by Indian users
a) E-Mail
b) Chatting
c) News
d) Matrimonial
e) Property
f) Jobs
Any other usages?
Thanks,
Rajeev
http://www.brandsindiaonline.com
81 million seems way off. The last estimates floated around the 40-45 million mark for every users, with 25-30 million for active users (which is also probably on the higher side).
This number of 81 million incidentally appears to be from the ITU estimates:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Indicators/Indicators.aspx
Nixx – When do you think we will hit 81M users and 20M broadband connections? Is it possible in the next 3 years? Mobile Internet users however seem to be growing and very active – even for MTNL!!
Its better to go by TRAI figures on the number of subscribers [Dial-Up, Broadband, Wireless Data Cards, Corpnet, etc] rather than “users” by third party survey / study.
These mobme idiots are retards, keep going yakyakyak, maybe should do some real work besides the crap they talk about.
The following calculations are based on a very comprehensive statistical model wherein the number of internet users are calculated by considering all micro and macro features into account;
“Total Unique India Internet Users (Adjusted)* – includes PC/IAD and mobile devices Users.Counting each User only once, regardless of the # of devices used.” as per estatsindia.com Internet Users and E-commerce Market Model, the Internet users as on Dec 2008 are 47,779,667 or 47million only.
[...] to figures released by the Internet Government Forum in Hyderabad earlier in the month (via Medianama) – In 2007, there were about 13.5 million Internet subscribers in India, representing 1.15 [...]
Those who make business plans based on the 81 million number will be unpleasantly surprised…
i m making business plan……and very much confused ….because it seems like…every report is challenged by one another……..
can any 1 plz suggest which reports u can go for with assurance…..
will reports by economic times will be ok??? or junx consultatnt???
rocky – dont go by any of these figures – all of them are based on surveys and extrapolated surveys will have errors, despite what all these research companies claim. best to go with a qualitative assessment instead of quantitative.
i mean juxtconsultindia
I agree :)