VeerChand Bothra is a technologist cum sociologist, who keenly observes tech trends and their impact on the land of the Maharajas. Veer is a Mobile Marketing technology expert and a Social Media enthusiast. He is also the founder/organiser of the Mumbai chapter of international industry event Mobile Monday. His 15 years of journey in the internet and mobile space, has also enriched his interests in reading, history, spirituality and world cinema.
This being the first post on Technology Walla, let us take a look at some latest Indian digital stats.
Mobiles
As per TRAI’s latest report, India’s mobile connections base at the end of December 2012 stands at 864.72 million. While the active mobile connections, based on VLR (Visitor Location Register), is 701.60 million.
Top 5 mobile operators in the country are Airtel (181.9 mln), Vodafone (147.4 mln), Reliance (118.5 mln), Idea (113.9 mln) and BSNL (99.9 mln).
Usage reports of Opera Mobile and StatCounter put Nokia as the top used mobile brand followed by Samsung.
Internet and Broadband
India’s broadband subscriber base is 14.98 million at the end of December 2012.
Top 5 ISPs in terms of subscriber base are BSNL (9.90 mln), Bharti Airtel (1.39 mln), MTNL (1.06 mln), Hathway (0.37 mln) and You Broadband (0.29 mln).
TRAI defines Broadband as an internet connection with a download speed > 256 Kbps.
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Rajesh Chaudary
February 16, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Collective information about Telecom and Social media.
Aatish
February 18, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Thank you for sharing average internet speed.
Very helpful statistics.
Sanjay
February 22, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Good research done by you, very informative post.
Girish
April 2, 2013 at 10:02 am
Good Research Thanks for sharing this, i Thought that average internet connection speed in India is around 20 Mbps. But it is 1 Mbps.