India to Overtake US in Internet Usage

When it comes to surfing, only 18 millions of Indian population of urban area is said to be active on internet. Moreover, it has been informed that this lot spends only two hours on internet on daily basis. The figures have been released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on 2nd of November, 2011.

In the beginning of this year, a study was conducted by IAMA. During the study, it was found that in all over India, the internet services are availed by 112 million people. Moreover, it is believed that by the end of the year, the figures would reach 121 million.

It is important to note here that 112 million of population using internet includes those as well who has accessed internet once in their lifetime. However, the active users of whole India were just 79 million. It is expected that by September the figure would reach to 90 millions.

On being interviewed, the CEO of an e-commerce company informed that only 50% of the net users used internet for gathering information. On the other hand, about 5 million internet users uses internet for shopping reasons.

It has further been revealed that 48% of the internet users are going cyber cafes to surf on internet while 37% of the users are using internet at home. The growing demand of India is adding about 5 to 7 million internet users, every month.

If the demand of internet continues to surge then there is possibility that within two years, India will overtake the US in internet usage. At present, China has world largest internet users of 485 million. However, in the US about 245 million users are using internet. The Indian Government is hopeful that within five years, Indian's internet users by grow to 600 million.