Akamai recently released their latest State of the Internet quarterly report (last quarter 2008).
Here’re the stats related to state of Internet in India:
% of Attack Traffic originating from India: 1.16%
Number of unique IP addresses: 2,629,923
Unique IP’s per capita: <0.01
Average Internet speed: 772 KBps
% above 5MBPS connections : 0.6%
% above 2 MBPS connections: 3.7%
% below 256 KBPS: 26%
As you can see below, the stats havent changed significantly as compared to the last figures reported in the 2nd quarter 2008.
% of Attack Traffic originating from India: 1.02%
Number of unique IP addresses: 2,108,790
Unique IP’s per capita: 0.00
Average Internet speed: data not available
% above 5MBPS connections : 0.6%
% above 2 MBPS connections: 4.6%
% below 256 KBPS: 26%
The major change as you can notice is in the number of the unique IP addresses – There was an increase of 521,133 unique IP addresses reported in India between 2nd Quarter 2008 and 4th quarter 2008. And that’s a good thing, because unique IP addresses is a direct indication of Internet penetration. In other words, the more the unique IP addresses, the more the people connecting to the Internet from different Internet connections. Of course, these unique IP addresses metric is a bit skewed for markets like India & China, where a significant Internet usage happens in cyber cafes. Even with this increase, India still significantly lags other countries in terms of adoption – for instance, China had about 40 million unique IP’s as compared to India’s measely 2 million.
You can access the entire report here (free registration needed to download)
Nice information..but why “% above 2 MBPS connections” are reduced? I don’t think that they have been moved to > 5MBPS as it is same at 0.6%.
Sachin,
thats a question that popped in my mind as well.
I guess people downgraded from 2 mbps to slower connections ?
Thats the only explanation that i could think of.
Hmm..but very strange.
Dear Pranav,
I feel that a report which talks in terms of % only cannot reveal the real ground realities.
Atleast in Cochin(Kerala), i could observe that there is a real price war between the broadband service providers(of course induced by BSNL) & ISPs are actively wooing for more subscribers. More homes which have computers are becoming broadband connected. Education & Entertainment (Music, Movies & Games) are the prime motives.
Also most of the Indian ISPs are allocating dynamic IPs. So we should have a formula for working out the real number of connections.
I feel that TRAI should come out with similar report(if it has not done already). My opinion is that TRAI’s report will be much more reliable compared to Akamai, atleast in India, since all ISPs are reporting to it.
With Regards
Santhanam
P.S.:
1) http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bsnl-launches-broadband-value-added-services/439849/
santhanam
certain metrics are possible only in % — for instance Internet adoption etc.
Trai reports the # of broadband customers in its monthly reports.
There is sure a long way to go in take up and access to the internet. It will be one of the key drivers in economic growth that’s for sure.
Tim
Broadband internet these days are getting much faster and cheaper too. ;*~
everyone wants fast broadband internet these days, i got some 5 mbps connection at home..;,