Web via Mobile

40 Million Indians access web via mobile--> Indian internet users are vehemently using their mobiles to keep themselves connected to Internet. Thirty-eight million Indians use their handsets to browse the web. The number of people using their mobile handsets to access the web is now over four times those using a PC. The findings based on a report of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) also stated that even as net connections fell in the year 2007, the number of people accessing the web on their cellphones increased from16 million to cross the 38 million mark. This included both CDMA and GSM users logging on to the Internet to surf, check email etc, among whom the number of 'active' Internet users in India currently stands at 32.2 million. The average usage per week on the traditional web stood at 2.4 days. Access using Mobile web surprisingly stood slightly higher at 2.7 days per week. A report on mobile expansion by the Centre for Telecoms Research (CTR), London said that mobile phone connections in India will reach 600 million in five years time as handsets and tariffs become more affordable for the urban population. The report is made on the backdrop of the assumption that within the next five years, urban populations of India will reach high levels of mobile phone saturation, to the extent where many phone users will have two or more handset connections. A large portion of this growth will arise from pre-paid connections, driven by the increasing affordability of handsets and tariffs amongst India's lower middle classes. D. Shivakumar, Managing Director of Nokia India said, "The average usage of the web on the PC per week stood at 2.4 days, while the use of mobile web surprisingly stood slightly higher at 2.7 days per week."

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