INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS 

(Updated:   March  1 2010)

 -- Total no. of phones: 600 million  
Mobiles: 563 million 
Landlines: 37 million 
 
-- Total no. of PCs: 40 million 
 
-- Internet accounts: 16 million 
Broadband:  7 million
 
-- Active Internet users:  60 million

IDC PC tracker for Q4 09 finds  overall India PC market growing  25.7% Year on Year over Q4 2008. Notebook sales  were a pleasant surprise:  57% growth in Q4 09 over Q4 08.

Top  over all PC sellers: HP, ( 16.2%), Dell ( 13.6%) Acer (10.4%)

Top Desktop sellers: HP, HCL, Acer

Top Notebook:  Dell, HP Acer

 Akamai State of the Internet report for  Q3 2009 finds India ranks # 97 globally for connection speed ( 897 KBPS); # 63 for broadband penetration ( 0.7 % of connections); # 9 for attack traffic ( 3.4 %); # 21 for IP addresses ( 3 million).

Kerala is India's  state with fastest connection at  1.386 MBPS,  while Delhi has  the max no. of unique IP addresses : 1,427,683.

On Jan 4,  Television Audience Measurement agency TAM Media said, 93 million of the 123 million households that had a TV set in 2009 , also enjoyed a cable connection. These numbers could be expected to rise to 134 million TV sets and 103 million cable connections sometime in 2010... which is almost a doubling in 6 six years.  15 million homes have digital TV feeds, that is  satellite based  direct-to-home or  digital cable services and this was poised to rise to  20 million in 2010.

Juxt Consulting\'s India Online 2009 study ( wwwe.juxtconsult.com) shows the number of  Indian Internet users is actually shrinking. They estimate the number at 47 million  and attibute the reduction to the  shnriking base of cybercafe usage, due to increased govt controls. 
Indian IT market:*
 -in 2008: $ 13.77bn
CAGR: 12.6%
2013 forecast: $ 25 bn
*BMI India IT Report Q1 2009/  12 Feb 2009
 
IT/ITeS revenue 2008**: Rs. 1010.31 billion 
 
Domestic IT: Rs. 941.85 billion 
Domestic ITeS: Rs. 68.46 billion 
 
** IDC India release 31 Dec 08 
 
Media and Entertainment industry***
-- in 2008:  Rs 584 bn.
CAGR: 12.5%
2013 forecast: Rs 1052 bn
 
2007/8 market/ 2013 forecast:
TV Rs 241bn/Rs 473 bn
Print Rs 173 bn/ Rs 266 bn
Filmed Entertainment: Rs 109.3 bn/ Rs 169 bn
Radio Rs 8.4 bn/Rs 16.3 bn
Music: Rs 7.3 bn/Rs 11 bn
Animation Rs 17.4 bn/Rs 39.4 bn
Gaming Rs 6.5 bn/Rs 27.4 bn  (fastest -- 33.3 % CAGR)
Internet activity  Rs 6.2 bn/Rs 21.4 bn
Outdoor Rs 16.1 bn/Rs 29.3 bn
 
*** FICCI- KPMG  report  Feb 17 2009
 
SOME GLOBAL COMPARISONS:

June 19 2009: iSuppli Corp says worldwide shipments of PCs in 2009  quarter#1, fell by the largest historic rate in 7 years.  66.7 millioon units were shipped, a fall of  8.1 percent over the same period in 2008. However, the 5 top vendors retained their ranks-- HP ( 19.7 % share) , Dell ( 18.7%), Acer ( 11.1%), Lenovo 6.7%), Toshiba(5.2%). However  tailender Toshiba enjoyed  the strongest growth of the five:  13.5% up from last year.

The annual Industry Performance Review  released by the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT)  on July 14 2009  based on research by IMRB, shows that PCs – desktop and laptopsales  declined  by 7 percent for the first time ever in India --they  sold 6.79 units in 2008-2009 compared to 7.34 million in 2007-08. In 2009-2010, they might – just – get back to the 2007/8 number.

The GSM Association announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb 11, 2009 that   the mobile world has crossed  4 billion connections;  100 million of them,  mobile broadband. Worldwide  fixed broadband connections total 1.1 billion.
 
Acording to ComScore, the global Internet population crossed 1 billion in December 2008. India ranks 7th in the size of  its Internet audience,  behind China,US, Japan, Germany, UK and France.

MAIT  has  shared  India numbers from the World Economic Forum\\\'s Global IT Report 2008-2009 covering 134 economies. It ranks no. 50 for  competitivness. Its market size is no. 4 ( domestic) and no.5 ( international). Its innovation is ranked no. 32  and business sophistication is no.27.

NOTE: These are best estimates based on numbers published by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Internet Service Providers Association of India,  Internet and Mobile Association of India; FICCI/KPMG;Gartner, Akamai,  IDC; Internet Governance Forum, ITU, comScore and other monitors, extrapolated since last update, using the most conservative growth rates. Broadband is officially defined in India as 256 KBPS or better.Active Internet users are defined as those who use the Internet at least once a month; CAGR: Compounded Annual Growth Rate