Mumbai has maximum internet users in India!

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According to the Internet in India (I-Cube) study jointly undertaken by the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International mumbai has 3.24 million internet users out of which 82% are active users i.e a whopping 2.6 million!

That begs the question.. Why is mumbai not getting WiMax? There was news earlier of Chennai getting wimax which had less than half the internet users than mumbai has.

So what do users so on the internet? Well a large chunk of users almost 60-70% are either using internet as a primary source of information search (No doubt guruji.com got funded for 7 million dollars) or the most common reason for internet usage is email. Read the entire press release here

The Internet Users Base across Top 8 metros

Top 8 Metros

(figures in million)

Ever Internet Users (13.12mn of 17.36 mn) Active Internet Users (10.21mn of 13.23 mn) Per cent of Active Internet users
Mumbai 3.24 mn 2.6 mn 82 per cent
Delhi 2.66 mn 1.80 mn 67 per cent
Kolkata 1.34 mn 1.05 mn 78 per cent
Chennai 1.48 mn 1.26 mn 85 per cent
Bangalore 1.31 mn 0.97 mn 74 per cent
Hyderabad 1.29 mn 0.95 mn 74 per cent
Ahmedabad 0.78 mn 0.59 mn 75 per cent
Pune 1.02 mn 0.92 mn 90 per cent

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