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Friday, December 01, 2006

Last month, IAMAI released a report on how the Indian consumer is using the Internet and Broadband. Here is another study by TRAI [PDF] which reveals the latest statistics of the state or Internet and Broadband in India at the end of June-06.

India has 7.7 Million internet subscribers.
20% of internet subscribers have broadband [atleast 256KBPs connection] i.e 1.5 Million broadband subscribers
The annual growth rate of Internet subscribers is 25%.
Between 2005 and 2006, Broadband subscribers growth was 637%. Reliance Broadband doesn't want to aggressively expand in the consumer broadband space, while our IT minister has promised major milestones in 2007 in the broadband space.
Under unlimited broadband plans in India, BSNL is the cheapest and MTNL is the most expensive.
Top 5 ISPS account have a combined market share of 86% with BSNL having a whopping 43%, followed by MTNL 19%, Sify 12%, VSNL 6% and Bharti Tele-ventures Ltd 6%.

Published on Friday, December 01, 2006 at 12:58 AM

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