India to beat US in internet
reach:-
India
with 243 million users by 2014. Internet usage in the country may not have crossed
15 % of the population yet, but it is nearly 10 times the population of
Australia.
The
report estimates 243 million internet users in the country by June 2014, which
is greater than US and also India gets the world's second largest internet base
after China.
While
Indians primarily use the internet for communication, largely in the form of
email, social media is also an important driver of internet use in India.
The
US currently has an estimated 207 million internet users, while China has 300
million. According to the report India had 82 million active users for Facebook
monthly where as it is low in US and Canada. Facebook does not operate in
China.
The
main source of Internet penetration in India is done largely by mobile phones, India
has 110 million mobile internet users of which 25 million are in rural India.
The growth of internet penetration in rural India is driven largely by the
mobile phone.
College-goers
remain the largest users of the internet in India, followed by young men.
