As per stats released by The Internet Governance Forum, India has 81 million Internet users. These figures however don't tally with other estimates.
According to Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet report for Quarter 3 of 2008, India has 26% on narrowband (<256kbps), 5% on broadband (>2 Mbps) and just 0.6% on "high broadband" (>5 Mbps). In comparison, South Korea tops the list of countries with the largest number of high broadband users (58%). Asia has the highest number of Internet users with an estimated 568.7 million people followed by the Americas with 377.9 million.
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