INTERNET CONNECTIVITY & PRICING IN INDIA

INTERNET PENETRATION IN INDIA

Internet penetration is rising appreciably in India today. Urban India which accounts for about 28% of the total population, has witnessed the bulk of this growth, with students, youth as well as office goers being the primary drivers. Rural India, on the other hand, lags behind. By December 2009, rural India had about 7.45 Mn claimed Internet users and 5.5 Mn active Internet users.

A GLOBAL VIEW OF THE INTERNET USAGE IN INDIA

Number of Internet users in Asia is 5,29,701,704. Though Asia has only 16% of populations of the world, 37.6% of total internet users are Asian. Of them around 60 million are from India. India is 3rd in Asia and 4th in world ((1st is China (220 million)

INTERNET USAGE IN INDIA

 As per the TRAI report for June 2011, the statistics for internet and broadband subscribers is shown below

MARKET SHARE OF TOP 5 ISPs IN INDIA

Rank 1: BSNL 57.84% Rank 2: MTNL 13.81% Rank 3: Bharti Airtel Ltd. 8.07% Rank 4: Reliance Commn. Infra. Ltd. 7.88% Rank 5: Hathway Cable & Datacom Pvt. Ltd. 1.94%

INTERNET CONNECTIVITY & PRICING IN RURAL INDIA

DRIVERS FOR INTERNET GROWTH IN INDIA

INTERNET LANDSCAPE IN RURAL INDIA

INTERNET ACCESS POINTS

PURPOSE OF INTERNET ACCESS

MAIN REASONS FOR NON-USAGE OF INTERNET IN RURAL INDIA

PROGRESS AS PER 28th FEBRUARY 2011

Internet & Urban India

 Dial up Connection: 56-256 kbps Broadband Connection: >256 kbps

Internet & PC Users in India in the Past Decade

E-Learning
TutorVista o Started in 2005 by K-Ganesh in Bangalore. o Went live in US in Nov-2005

o Manipal Education Group invests $ 2.5 million

o UK-based publishing firm Pearson invests along with Lightspeed Venture Partners bringing the total reported raised capital to $38 million

National e Governance Plan of India : Make all Govt Services accessible to the common man

Focus areas:

Public Delivery System

Decentralized Implementation

Common Service Centers

Cost Effective Video, Voice and data content Govt. Services-e-Govt: birth certificates, Utility bills etc Social Services- Education, Health, Telemedia Private Services- Entertainment, Financial Services etc. P-P-P Model 100,000 Centers in 4 years $ 1.5 billion outlay

State Mission Mode Project

Agiculture Commercial Taxex E-District Employment Exchange Land Records Municipalities and Panchayats Road Transport

Central (Federal) Mission Mode Project

Banking Central Excise & Customs IT Insurance Unique ID Passport Immigration and visa Pensoin E-OFFICE

Integrated Mission Mode Projects

Common Service Centers e-BIZ (Business Facilitation) e-Courts e-Procurement Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) for Trade (e-Trade) National E-governance Service Delivery Gateway Indian Portal (www.india.gov.in)

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

Statistics about Internet usage considering cities : Mumbai has most number of Internet users nearly 3.24 million Delhi holds the second place with 2.66 million Top ten cities having most number of Internet users are Mumbai, Delhi, Banglore, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Surat and Nagpur. These 10 cities has 37% of the total numbers of Internet users in India.

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

Online exams for various education and employment programmes are conducted in urban parts of India . E-learning process is implemented at school in urban India.

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

e-Governance initiatives under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM), Govt. Services-e-Govt: birth certificates, Utility bills etc Commercial Taxes

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is the application of computer and communications technologies coming in aid of the transport problems. ITS technologies enable gathering of data or intelligence and then providing timely feedback to traffic managers and road-users.
The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation and such other needs within our cities.

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

Indias base of 81 million mobile internet users is the worlds fourth largest, though this is composed of just 20 percent of Indias urban citizens who are connected to the internet, compared with the 60 percent in China In February, Vodafone added the most number of subscribers, followed by RCOM and Airtel. Bharti Airtels market share is now 20.9%, followed by Reliance Communications at 16.7%, and Vodafone at 16.54%. BSNL has 11.41%, while Tata Teleservices has 11.08% market share, followed by Idea with 10.97%. a field survey in Bangalore City to ascertain consumer and channel partner behavior post 3G launch.

Internet Connectivity in Urban India

Areas of Improvement
Unlike the mobile phone, which spread quickly among all Indians from urban executives to farm workers, the Internet has taken longer to catch on More voice traffic can be generated
Much deeper penetration in urban India is needed

IMPACT OF INTERNET CONNECTIVITY AND PRICING IN INDIA-URBAN

Internet and E-services: Despite the considerable popular interest in Internet in India, the ISP market has been in disarray. According to the telecom regulator, there were around 180 operational ISPs in the country, after a period of market rationalisation.

IMPACT OF INTERNET CONNECTIVITY AND PRICING IN INDIA-URBAN

The Freelance Business: Largest pool of english speaking people who have expertise to undertake freelance jobs in varied industries. Various Indian sites and organizations that offer varied freelance services.

Tourism and travel industry

Boon to tourism industry as we can get all the relevant information on net Numerous online sites offer all requisite information about these exotic places from travelling to these places to hotel bookings and sight seeing.

Online art auctions:

Online auction of prized masterpiece of the artists has become a reality.

E-Commerce Transactions:
Real time buying and selling enables a person to sell anything from cars, books, stocks etc.

The profits from online trading are garnering a lot of appreciation as well as opening new markets for further trading with India. Online fund transfer, an offshoot of the benefit of net penetration has ensured an inflow of money into the country from the expatriates.

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