According to a joint report titled, ‘India On The Go – Mobile Internet Vision 2017’ by the Internet and Mobile Association of India and KPMG, the number of mobile internet users in India is going to reach 236 million by 2016 and 314 million by 2017.

Further, the findings of the report indicate that will have over 500 million internet users by 2017. As of June 2015, internet user base in the country stood at over 350 million. Further, the 2G user base in India is projected to decline in the coming years as more and more customers are expected to migrate from 2G to 3G. Meanwhile, the 3G user base in India is fast gaining market share and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 61.3 per cent from 2013-17. There were about 82 million 3G subscribers in India by the end of 2014 and the number is projected to reach 284 million by end of 2017.

As the end of 2014, the active internet user base in rural India was 6.7 per cent of the overall rural population of 905 million and accounted for 61 million internet users. Further, 4.4 per cent of the total rural population used a mobile device to access the internet, in comparison to 0.4 per cent in the year 2012.