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Availability of low-cost smartphones
and increasing penetration of mobile
broadband will help India overtake
the US as the world’s second largest
Internet user-base by 2016, research
firm eMarketer said.
According to the US-based firm,
India’s online population will touch
283.8 million by 2016, leaving behind
the US at 264.9 million in the same
period.
eMarketer predicts that by 2018 India
will have 346.3 million Internet users
against the US’ 274.1 million. China,
which has the world’s largest Net
users, will continue to retain its
position with a little over 700 million
by 2016 and 777 million by 2018, it
added.
“Inexpensive mobile phones and
mobile broadband connections are
driving Internet access and usage in
countries where fixed Internet has
been out of reach for consumers,
whether that’s due to lack of
infrastructure or affordability,”
eMarketer Senior Forecasting Analyst
Monica Peart said.
While highly developed markets are
nearly saturated in terms of Internet
users, there is a significant room for
growth in emerging ones, she said,
adding that India and Indonesia will
both see double-digit growth in each
year between now and 2018. “By
2016, India will jump the US as the
second-largest Internet user
population,” eMarketer said.
Globally,
Internet users will surpass 3 billion in
2015, increasing by 6.2 per cent to
reach 42.4 per cent of the entire
world’s population, it added.
This year, the Internet will reach
more than two in five people in the
world for the first time as online
audience hits 2.89 billion users
globally, it said. By 2018, eMarketer
estimates that nearly half the world’s
population, 3.6 billion people, will
access the Internet at least once
each month. However, a report by
Internet and Mobile Association of
India(IAMAI) and IMRB International
predicts that India will overtake the
US as the second-largest Internet
user base in the world by December
2014.
The number of Internet users in India
is expected to grow 32 per cent to
302 million this year from 213 million
at the end of December last year, it
has said. According to IAMAI-IMRB
report, presently China leads with
more than 600 million Internet users,
while the US has an estimated 279
million users.
India set to overtake the US as second-largest Internet user base by this year-end: report Tech2 Mobile
and increasing penetration of mobile
broadband will help India overtake
the US as the world’s second largest
Internet user-base by 2016, research
firm eMarketer said.
According to the US-based firm,
India’s online population will touch
283.8 million by 2016, leaving behind
the US at 264.9 million in the same
period.
eMarketer predicts that by 2018 India
will have 346.3 million Internet users
against the US’ 274.1 million. China,
which has the world’s largest Net
users, will continue to retain its
position with a little over 700 million
by 2016 and 777 million by 2018, it
added.
“Inexpensive mobile phones and
mobile broadband connections are
driving Internet access and usage in
countries where fixed Internet has
been out of reach for consumers,
whether that’s due to lack of
infrastructure or affordability,”
eMarketer Senior Forecasting Analyst
Monica Peart said.
While highly developed markets are
nearly saturated in terms of Internet
users, there is a significant room for
growth in emerging ones, she said,
adding that India and Indonesia will
both see double-digit growth in each
year between now and 2018. “By
2016, India will jump the US as the
second-largest Internet user
population,” eMarketer said.
Globally,
Internet users will surpass 3 billion in
2015, increasing by 6.2 per cent to
reach 42.4 per cent of the entire
world’s population, it added.
This year, the Internet will reach
more than two in five people in the
world for the first time as online
audience hits 2.89 billion users
globally, it said. By 2018, eMarketer
estimates that nearly half the world’s
population, 3.6 billion people, will
access the Internet at least once
each month. However, a report by
Internet and Mobile Association of
India(IAMAI) and IMRB International
predicts that India will overtake the
US as the second-largest Internet
user base in the world by December
2014.
The number of Internet users in India
is expected to grow 32 per cent to
302 million this year from 213 million
at the end of December last year, it
has said. According to IAMAI-IMRB
report, presently China leads with
more than 600 million Internet users,
while the US has an estimated 279
million users.
India set to overtake the US as second-largest Internet user base by this year-end: report Tech2 Mobile
