Both the Internet and the smartphone industry have seen sharp curves in distribution and consumption patterns in the past decade in India. In fact, both are observed to be mutually exclusive in this thriving digital era.
The telecom minister estimating India’s Internet users to shoot upto 50 crore users in next 5-8 months is a small piece of an entire picture of the rising Internet and smartphone penetration.
In India, though the percentage (19%) of Internet penetration is far low but in absolute values the country shows some astounding figures. India is close to replace US as the second largest enabled market with numbers inching towards 300-million-Internet-users mark, the largest being the China.
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The telecom minister estimating India’s Internet users to shoot upto 50 crore users in next 5-8 months is a small piece of an entire picture of the rising Internet and smartphone penetration.
In India, though the percentage (19%) of Internet penetration is far low but in absolute values the country shows some astounding figures. India is close to replace US as the second largest enabled market with numbers inching towards 300-million-Internet-users mark, the largest being the China.

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