India on Way to Topping US in Internet Users
20 November 2011
A man sends a text message from his mobile phone at an Internet cafe in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
India could pass the United States in the number of Internet users in less than two years. A new report says India reached one hundred twelve million users in September. That makes India the third largest Internet market after China and the United States.
China reported four hundred eighty-five million Internet users in June, and there are more than two hundred seventy million Internet users in the United States.
The Internet and Mobile Association of India says Internet growth was especially strong among people in smaller towns and cities.
There was also a large increase in Internet use among school-aged children and college students. This is partly because of the growing number of e-learning services and educational websites.
Subho Roy is president of the Internet and Mobile Association of India. He says another big change this year is that more and more people are using the Internet from home.
SUBHO ROY: "Last year the old
pattern
was still there --
cyber
cafes being top, then office, and then home. So this
dramatic
change has
come about
this year -- a very, very great movement in the home-use
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