Majority of the internet using population in the country use the service for communication in the form of e-mail or social media. The recent reports from Facebook which states 82 million active users in June 2013, makes the country second in line after North America.

The credit for internet penetration in India must be given to mobiles phones; even the cheapest ones coming these days offer access to internet. Out of the 110 million mobile internet users in India 25 million are in rural India and 70 percent of the rural internet users’ access via mobile phones and prefers using in local language. The major users of web are the collage going population and the younger demography. Chakravarti states that India’s performance in Internet penetration stands at a great height taking the current infrastructure of the country into consideration.

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