The declining prices of mobile handsets and low connectivity costs have helped in doubling Internet access through cell phones this year.
The latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) figures showed that the number of Indians using their mobiles (both GSM and CDMA) to access the Internet has more than doubled from 16 million in 2006 to 38 million in 2007.
There were 2.69 million broadband subscribers as on October 30 this year. Besides, of the 22 million PCs in the country, around 30-40 percent have Internet access.
This implies that Internet access through mobiles is at least three times more than that through PCs and nearly 19 times more than broadband.
The GSM and CDMA players registered a double-digit growth in users accessing the Internet through mobile phones. Among the 50.91 million Bharti-Airtel subscribers, as on Oct 2007, about 35 percent access the Internet through their handsets.
Source: Business Standard
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