PAKISTANIS FRUSTRATED AS ---------49 Mn Indians log on to Internet in 2008

PAKISTANIS FRUSTRATED AS ---------49 Mn Indians log on to Internet
in 2008........

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

New Delhi: Internet users in India have risen to over 49 million this
year. Urban users account for a bulk of it, 40 million, with rural net
users numbering 9 million. Regular net users, defined as anyone
accessing the net at least once a month, number around 35 million (30-
million urban and 5-million rural), says online research & advisory
firm JuxtConsult's 'India Online 2008' - an offline survey of over
12,500 households across 40 cities and 160 villages countrywide to
gauge the online behavior of Indians.

The data indicate that every one in 10 urban Indians (12 percent) is
now net connected. And interestingly, over 70 percent Internet users
prefer to access the net in Indian languages, with English users
dwindled down to 28 percent from 41 percent in 2007.

Internet penetration (as percent of population) has crossed double-
digit mark in urban India at 12 percent, up 3 percent from 9 percent
last year, and rural penetration stands at 4.5 percent,

India's net user demographics cuts evenly across socio-economic class
(SEC) A, B and C, and extends beyond metros (which account for under a
third, 30 percent, of all users now, down 6 percent from 2007?s 36
percent). A majority, over three-fourths of users (77 percent), are
between 19 to 35 years of age, up 10 percent from 2007.

Surprisingly women account for less than a fifth, just 17.6 percent,
of the 49 million odd Indian netizens. The females' net representation
is just marginally higher for urban India at 18.2 percent.

The survey says that over half of all net users (51 percent) in the
country are salaried employees in the corporate world. The number of
urban netizens has increased by 33 percent in the last one year, from
30 million to 40 million. Of the total number of urban users, 75
percent (30 million) are regular urban users while rest, 25 percent
(10-million), are occasional users.

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