Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have the highest number of Internet users
in the country where total Web user base was close to 325 million at the
end of September 2015, NDA Government said Saturday February 27,2016
Maharashtra
had the highest number of Internet users at 27.71 million, with 9.74
million coming from rural areas and 17.97 million in urban areas,
Minister of Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written
reply to Rajya Sabha.
Tamil Nadu had 26.87 million Internet users, Andhra Pradesh 23.99
million and Karnataka 21.72 million at the end of September 2015.
The
Delhi circle had 18.48 million users, while Mumbai and Kolkata circles
had 15.28 million and 8.65 million Internet users, respectively.
Of
the 324.95 million Internet users across the country, 120.88 million
were using broadband, while the remaining 204.07 million were narrow
band Internet users, the Minister said.
Minister of Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad added that the National
Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project will provide broadband
infrastructure to all the gram panchayats. "First phase of NOFN project
to cover one lakh gram panchayats is targeted for completion by December
2016," he said.
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