India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022
India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022 and the internet penetration, under the first phase of the project several villages are to be connected by optical fibre cable.
There are 422.19 million broadband subscribers at present. However according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman RS Sharma, “Low broad penetration in India will be addressed by the government by installing fibre optic cable, as India lags behind countries like Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore”.
India had 19m fixed broad subscriptions ranked 10th and 274m mobile-cellular subscriptions ranked world number one. Fixed broadband access refers to high-speed fixed wired access to the public internet at a downstream speed equal to at least 256 kbit/s and Mobile-cellular access which allows access to the greater internet via HTTP and must have been used to make a data connection using the internet protocol in the previous three months. SMS and MMS messaging do not count as an active internet data connection even if they are delivered via IP.