With 100 million Internet subscribers, India is one of the fastest growing “Internet nation”. You wouldn’t believe that India had just 25,000 Internet users back in 1998 and wasn’t in the top 50 list six years ago.
Last Friday, the Broadband Forum India announced that India added 2.5 million new lines of broadband last year. With such robust growth, it seems likely that the total number of Internet subscribers will triple by 2015.
“There has been tremendous and consistent growth in broadband across India in recent years, yet this is just the tip of the iceberg. Both fixed and wireless broadband options abound, and the Broadband Forum is doing all it can to help India’s providers engineer smarter and faster networks,” said Mr Robin Mersh, CEO BroadBand Forum.
“2010 was also a landmark year for broadband subscriptions – following the milestone half billion lines achieved in July 2010, subscriber figures continued to climb steadily and ended the year at 523,066,022 (globally) – a net addition of over 55 million lines during the year”, said the statement.
Looking at the recent statistics, the number of Internet users in Asia is close to double the number in Europe. Asia has grown by a whopping 600 percent in the last decade and is set to be the continent with the most number of Internet users. China, India and Japan are leading the front in terms of rankings as well as in growth rates. India with a penetration of only 6.9 percent (lowest amongst the top three) and a growth rate of 50% in the last one year itself, shows a bright future for its Internet industry.
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