India Has 5.5 Million Net Users: Nasscom

["Irfan Khan" <khania@super.net.pk>]

India Has 5.5 Million Net Users: Nasscom 

By Uday Lal Pai

India Correspondent, asia.internet.com 

[February 8] The number of Internet subscribers in India as of 
January, 2001, was 1.8 million, and Internet users at 5.5 million, 
said an Internet survey conducted by the National Association of 
Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). 

Projections for December, 2003, show 15 million subscribers and 50 
million users. Capital cities accounted for 77 percent of Internet 
connections. 

There were 38 million cable television subscribers in India, 28 
million fixed telephones and 75 million television sets in the 
country as on December 31, 2000. 

An interesting point was that 48 percent of Internet users in the 
country accessed the Net daily. This was higher than the 
international average of 43 percent, said NASSCOM. 

The survey shows the number of PCs or "information devices" in the 
country, as of December 31, 2000, at five million. More than 81 
percent of stand-alone PCs sold during the 1999-2000 financial year 
were driven by the need to access the Net, said Nasscom. 


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