10 Nations With Fastest Internet Growth


#3 India

2012

Number of users: 138 million

Total devices: 1,152 million

Population: 1,268 million

2017

Number of users: 348 million

Total devices: 1,904 million

Population: 1,352 million

Internet traffic in India will reach 2.5 exabytes per month in 2017, up from 393 petabytes per month in 2012, according the Cisco survey. On Internet traffic in India, VNI said, IP (Internet Protocol) traffic will grow 6-fold from 2012 to 2017 in India, a compound annual growth rate of 44 per cent. Portable devices like smartphones and tablets will contribute 40 per cent to IP traffic in 2017 from 3 per cent in 2012. TV's share will be 10 per cent and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will contribute 3 per cent, it added. The report expects mobile Internet traffic to record a healthy growth by 2017. (Source: Times Of India)

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