India Internet Market Statistics, 2001-2010

The Indian Internet Services Market was worth $548 million at the end of 2006, with 7.8 million internet connections making up 4% of households in the country.

We anticipate continued strong growth in the overall size of the market. We foresee take-up of broadband connections will be driven by better infrastructure coverage. Furthermore, improved affordability of DSL services will make these available to the middle classes. Broadband ARPU is expected to increase driven by greater household bandwidth consumption and migration to higher connectivity speeds. We expect take-up of IPTV to increase with broadband connections, but remain at a relatively low absolute level.

This report provides comprehensive five year historical and five year forecast market sizing data across the residential Indian Internet Services Market, consisting of:

• Households
• PC households
• Total internet connections
• Total broadband connections
• Total DSL connections, split by:
  • 0-2Mbit/s
  • 2-10Mbit/s
  • 10+ Mbit/s
• Total cable modem connections
• Dial-up connections
• IPTV households
• Fixed internet penetration
• PC household penetration
• Broadband penetration of PC households
• Mobile internet connections
• Broadband access revenues
• Dial-up access revenues

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Our market reports are based on robust, tried and tested, research methodologies. Historical market data is sourced largely from regulatory and company sources, where available. In cases where historical information is unavailable, we compile market assumptions and test these with industry professionals and experts. All our forecasts are sense checked both from a bottom-up and top-down perspective.

All variables are clearly defined. This report is available in Microsoft Excel format.