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The Centre on Wednesday said it expects the internet users in India to reach 500 million within this year itself, instead of next year, as predicted by search giant Google earlier.
“India has grown to around 400 million internet users. If we take Telecom Regulatory Authority of India numbers then it is somewhere close to 332 million. As per service providers, it is 402 million. We were to have 500 million users by 2017, I feel it will happen this year itself,” Minister of Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said here at an event. Launching a pictorial story book titled Digital Desh Drive 2.0 – Inside the Internet of India , the minister said with the number of smartphone users growing exponentially on a daily basis, the number of Internet users will also grow on a faster pace.
Digital Desh Drive 2 is a book conceptualised and written by leaders of group of companies and industry bodies including Google India, NowFloats, Paytm, iSPIRT (Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable) and the Internet and Mobile Association of India.
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