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Digital India will drive internet users in India to double by 2021

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Indian internet users will see more than double growth to reach 829 million from 373 million users in 2016. The digital India push will increase the no. of netizens, according to a recent report.

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This means roughly 59 per cent of the Indian population will use the internet. Also, there would be two billion networked devices in 2021 up from 1.4 billion in 2016.

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Overall IP traffic is expected to grow 4-fold during the same period of five years at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 per cent, the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast said.

Sanjay Kaul, Managing Director, Service Provider Business, Cisco India SAARC notified that combining device capabilities with faster, higher bandwidth and more intelligent networks is leading to the wide adoption of high-bandwidth data, video and advanced multimedia applications that contribute to increased mobile and Wi-Fi traffic.

The report further explained that mobile to mobile (M2M) connections will represent 22 per cent of the total two billion devices and connections and will account for five percent of IP traffic by 2021.

Advancements in IoT applications such as smart meters, package tracking, digital health monitors and a host of other next-generation M2M services is driving this incremental growth.

India will reach 84 billion Internet video minutes per month by 2021, which is one hundred and sixty thousand years of video per month, or about thirty-two thousand video minutes every second, it explained.

By Baishakhi Dutta

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