I dont want paste the internet speeds and rates offered in S. Korea....it will put UK to shame and will give us all sleepless nights. Nothing in india is going to happen for few more years to come. We keep talking about the mobile revolution in our country but we fail to understand that fewer than five in 100 people own a mobile handset in India, according to BBC, (lets not talk about absolute numbers 'cause we have a huge poplution, rather look at the percentage of the population with mobile phones), teledensity, or ratio of phones to population, is at 17.16 percent, according to the TRAI (this includes moblies as well as landlines in india). and stands at 13 percent for mobile phones. In terms of numbers, India has only 136 million users compared to China's 447 million mobile phone users. Across the European Union (EU) as a whole, mobile phone penetration has reached almost 95 per cent (for the yr 2006), hitting 100 per cent in eight member states, according to a new report from the European Commission on European electronic communications regulation and markets. Australia is 90.1% and soon to touch 100%. North America has 73% penetration rates, Latin american has 50% penetration rates, Russia is 68%. According to the
business week, the Israelis, the Singaporeans. the Taiwanese. and the Hong Kongers have hit the 100% mark. Africa has 15% penetration. which is higher than india..........we have a very long long way to go. If this is the penetration rate of mobile phones in india, broadband is a distant dream. And according to a report by Forrester, urban India has only a 3.5 per cent adoption rate (internet) among its top three socio-economic classes. This is against a penetration of 62 per cent in South Korea, Hong Kong at 57 per cent, Japan at 67%. Taiwan at 60%, Singapore at 66%. Metropolitan China, has internet penetration rates of 43 per cent....Surprise Pakistan is at 7%Not to worry, we are at par with countries like bostwana 3.2%, comoros 2.9%, bhutan 3.1%, gabon 4.6%, gambia 3.2%, libya 3.3%, namibia 3.6%, nigera 3.1% and so on. Are you listening Mr. Moron??