INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS 

(Updated:   June 17 2013)
Total no. of phone subscriptions*:  895 million  
Mobiles:  865 million 
Landlines: 30 million 

* The negative trend since July 2012 i sdue to large scale cancellation of SIMs not in use
-- Total no. of PCs: 80 million  
-- Internet accounts:   70 million (fixed); 25  million (on mobile phones) Broadband:  15  million
-- Active Internet users:  200 million fixed* +  (Mobile internet: 40 million) * An internet connection is tpically shared by  2-4 users
TV owning houses: 116 million ( digital: 30 million)

NEW!  Worldwide mobile usage: Ericsson study

Global and Indian smartphone market -- IDC numbers
Gartner study on Semiconductor usage in India 2012 

CISCO-IAMAI study on Mobile VAS market in India.  See our report .

BCG-CII Report on  IT ENABLEMENT OF INDIAN BUSINESS March 2013. Our news summary:  

The FICCI-KPMG Indian Media and Entertainment - Industry Report 2013  was released in Mumbai on March 11, on the opening day of FICCI Frames 2013, India’s  flagship event of the media and entertainment industry. We bring you a link to  download the full report here  from  the KPMG site (  free but requires registration).  Here is our story with the highlights

India Tablet market in 2012... CyberMedia Research report

*Top IT spenders in India: Gartner study  Feb. 2013
*India Online buying trends from Google study India highlights

 India highlights from Akamai State of Internet report Q3 2012: 

Indian market till 2015 for Electronics, manufacturing and semiconductors: ISA –Frost&Sullivan study

Indian Mobile Internet Usage report Dec 2012, IAMAI study.India will have 130.6 million mobile internet users by March 2014 . In December 2012, this number was 87.1 Million. Report

Indian mobile phone growth halts  
http://indiatechonline.com/india-mobile-negative-growth-851.php 

Quarterly PC sales numbers from  Gartner: Q2 2012: http://indiatechonline.com/india-q2-2012-pc-market-gartner-839.php 

India''''s Rs 3.2 trillion economy: BCG study
 http://www.indiatechonline.com/bcg-internet-economy-report-2012-130.php

CENSUS of INDIA on connectivity: We carry the government''''''''s published numbers ( March 13 2012):The final figures of the first phase of Census 2011 known as House listing and Housing Census was released by Union Home Secretary, R.K. Singh in New Delhi on March 13 2012. As per the House listing and Housing Census 2011, the census houses increased from 25 million to 330 million. There is an increase of 6 cr census houses for residential and partly residential purposes.
As regards mode of communication, there is an increase of 16% in television and a corresponding decline of about 15 pt in use of radios/transistors.
Less than 1 out of 10 households have Computer/laptop with only 3% having internet facility.
The penetration of internet is 8% in urban as compared to less than 1% in rural area. 63% households have Telephone/mobile facility with 82% in urban and 54% in rural area.
The penetration of mobile phone is 59% and landline is 10%.  Link to full release: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=0

NASSCOM numbers for Indian IT-BPO industry 2011-12
 http://www.indiatechonline.com/nasscom-study-of--india-it-bpo-business-2011-12-673.php

 Indian SMBs outpace ICT biggies http://www.indiatechonline.com/indian--smbs--outstrip-it-industry-pace-671.php

 Indian enterprise spending 2012-2015 :Gartner projections: http://www.indiatechonline.com/indian-enterprise-spending-forecast-2012-15--gartner-122.php  

Top 10 broadband and internet operators and their market share in India http://telecomlead.com/inner-page-details.php?id=6032 NEW! Telecom net additions in India plummet. http://telecomlead.com/inner-page-details.php?id=5950

India scores low in global connectivity scorecard. Link to India page of Nokia-Siemens global survey:http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/countries/india

Full text of  Indian Govt new draft policies for IT, Telecom, Electronics:  IT Policy: http://www.mit.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/National_Policy_on_Information_Technology_07102011(1).pdf

Telecom Policy: http://www.dot.gov.in/NTP-2011/final-10.10.2011.pdf 

Electronics Policy: http://mit.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/Draft-NationalPolicyonElectronics2011_3102011.pdf