India to own second largest on-line user base when China by 2016

Availability of low-priced smartphones and increasing penetration of mobile broadband can facilitate Asian country overtake the North American nation because the world's second largest web user-base by 2016, analysis firm eMarketer aforesaid.
According to the US-based firm, India's on-line population can bit 283.8 million by 2016, leaving the North American nation at 264.9 million within the same amount.
Inexpensive mobile phones and mobile broadband connections square measure driving web access and usage in countries wherever fastened web has been out of reach for customers, whether or not that is as a result of lack of infrastructure or affordability," eMarketer Senior prognostication Analyst Monica Peart aforesaid.

While extremely developed markets square measure nearly saturated in terms of web users, there's a major area for growth in rising ones, she said, adding that Asian country and land can each see double-digit growth in annually between currently and 2018.