India has lowest internet penetration growth in Apac: Report
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[QUOTE]NEW DELHI: India, which accounts for the third largest online user-base globally after China and the US, has had the lowest internet penetration growth in Asia Pacific (APAC) at 17.4% so far this year, research firm eMarketer said in a report.
However, it left behind major emerging markets in APAC like China and Indonesia in terms of growth in online users as of May 2014. Asia-Pacific will boast of over 1.33 billion internet users this year, the largest online population of any region in the world, eMarketer said in the report.
"Within the region, internet usage rates span a broad range, from as low as 17.4% of India's population this year, to nearly eight in 10 in South Korea," it added. The research firm said there is a clear split between developed Internet economies South Korea, Japan and Australia, which all have at least three-quarters of their total populations online and less developed, but growing, markets like Indonesia and India.
South Korea accounted for the highest 78.9% of the internet penetration growth in Asia Pacific followed by Japan (77.3%), Australia (76%), China (48.5%) and Indonesia (33%).
"Unsurprisingly, it's these less mature markets that are growing their web populations more quickly, both because of their relatively smaller bases and the basic fact that saturation is far off in these countries," eMarketer said.
India led Asia Pacific nations in user growth at 28.9% followed by Indonesia (14.9%), China (6%), Australia (1.7%), Japan (0.8%) and South Korea (0.7%).
"Double-digit growth rates in India's internet population are expected throughout eMarketer's forecast period (2012 - 2018), while Indonesia will also post increases of 10% or higher through 2016," the firm said. By contrast, it expects online populations of South Korea and Japan to stagnate over the same period. Industry body the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) expects India's internet user base to touch 243 million by this month, projecting a year-on-year growth of 28%. As per Trai data, the country's internet subscriber base stood at 238.71 million as on December 31, 2013.[/QUOTE]
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They make up for it with other kinds of penetration.
That's because are telecoms are a thinly veiled monopoly, thanks to the high levels of corruption in the telecom ministry. 3G is fucking ridiculously expensive and internet in general is just utter shit in terms of speed, plans, access or infrastructure.
FFS, we have FUP policies applied to 1 mbps connections, which is goddamn ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Blanketspace;45007401]They make up for it with other kinds of penetration.[/QUOTE]
1st comment: rape joke
stay classy face punch studios
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link doesn't work for me.
It's weird how they have a lower percentage of their population using the internet, but their population is so large that it's more than some countries' entire population.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45007417]link doesn't work for me.[/QUOTE]
It's just been fixed, sorry about that.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45007417]1st comment: rape joke[/QUOTE]
Not really. India has a lot of people, therefore people in India have lots of sex.
i don't mind this
It can't be any lower than North Korea's internet usage right?
[QUOTE=Roshbitnak;45008948]Not really. India has a lot of people, therefore people in India have lots of sex.[/QUOTE]
nah let's be real it's an obvious reference to all of the Indian rape news there's been lately. I think it's still a little funny though, if yet distasteful :)
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