INTERNET COMPENDIUM 2007
This compendium is a collection of the most recent statistics and market data publicly available on the Internet, online ads marketing, e-commerce and related digital media. The report is a one-stop shop for Internet stats to help you quickly track down the latest data.
The report draws inputs from our own internal database along with the other third party sources, credited throughout the document in the acknowledgements at the back of this guide. For the ease of use all numbers in this compendium are given in INR as well as in equivalent US$.
1. INTERNET PENETRATION:
The broadband policy envisages 18 million Internet subscribers in India by 2007. As of March 2006, the country had 6.94 million subscribers. The largest ISP BSNL had 42% market share, with MTNL in 2nd position with 14% market share.
As of March 2006, broadband subscribers were 1.3 million
As of June 2006, there were 7.71 million Internet subscribers (including broadband) and 1.56 broadband subscribers.
1.1. Total Internet Subscribers:
Total Internet subscriber’s base/connections for the quarter ending March 2006: Neared 7 million
Total Internet subscribers’ base/connections as on year ending December 2006: Neared 10 million
At end-December, the total number of broadband connections stood at 2.00 million
This amounts to an increase of near about 9.44% million subscribers per quarter.
1.2. Market Share of leading ISPs (as of March 2006)
BSNL-42%
MTNL-14%
Sify-13%
VSNL-8%
Data Infosys-4%
Reliance Communications Infrastructure limited-5%
Bharti Tele-Ventures-6%
Others-8%
1.3. Total Internet subscribers/connections: 10 million, as on year ending December 2006
1.4. Total Internet subscribers/users by the end of December 2006:
27 million (inclusive of users accessing Internet through mobile handset (GSM/CDMA)
Total PC Installed Base: 18 million (Notebooks and Desktops combined)
1.5. eStatsindia.com defines an Internet subscriber/user as a person accessing the Internet at least once per month through a PC or through an Internet Access device. There is no age limitation for user. Counting each user only once regardless of the number of devices used.
eStatsindia.com defines an Internet device as:
The device must access or connect to the Internet at least once per month to be considered an Internet device. Such an Internet device is counted as one Internet connection. This is a percent of the devices captured in the Installed Base.
2. MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS:
In the quarter Ending March 2006
The total mobile subscribers base stood at 90.14 million
GSM Subscribers: 69.2 million
CDMA Subscribers: 20.94 million
2.1. Operator-Wise Break-Ups of Mobile Subscribers
| Mobile Group |
Subscribers as on
March-06 (in Millions) |
Market Share
(in %age) |
Technology Used |
| Bharti: |
19.58 |
21.72 |
GSM |
| BSNL: |
17.65 |
19.58 |
GSM & CDMA |
| Reliance: |
17.31 |
19.21 |
GSM & CDMA |
| Hutchison: |
15.36 |
17.04 |
GSM |
| IDEA: |
7.37 |
8.18 |
GSM |
| TTSL: |
4.85 |
5.38 |
CDMA |
| Airtel |
2.61 |
2.90 |
GSM |
| MTNL |
2.05 |
2.27 |
CDMA |
| Spice |
1.93 |
2.14 |
GSM |
| BPL |
1.34 |
1.49 |
GSM |
| HFCL |
0.06 |
0.07 |
CDMA |
| Shyam Telelink |
0.03 |
0.03 |
CDMA |
Total |
90.14 |
100 |
|
2.2. ARPU:
For GSM:
Revenue Net of “pass through” and service tax is about:
Rs. 69.6 Billion ($1.57 Billion) in the quarter ending Mar-06 as against Rs. 58.71 Billion ($1.30 Billion) in the Dec-05 quarter. The growth in revenue is 9.62% and the corresponding growth in average subscriber base is 18.3%. The all India blended ARPU per month has increased by about 1.2% from Rs. 362($8.04) in the quarter ending Dec-05 to Rs. 366($8.13) in the quarter ending Mar-06.
For CDMA:
All India blended ARPU in the quarter ending Mar-06 remains same as in the quarter ending Dec-05 i.e. Rs. 256 ($5.68)
2.3. Total Mobile Subscribers for quarter ending June 2006:
Neared 105.42 million
GSM Subscribers: 78.50 million
CDMA Subscribers: 26.92
Total Mobile Subscribers for quarter ending September 2006:
Neared 123 million
GSM Subscribers: 91.05 million
CDMA Subscribers: 31.95 million
Total Mobile Subscriber base for year ending December 2006: Neared 134 million. This amounts to an increase of near about 10.87 million subscribers per quarter.
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