As a lay person, I feel either the statistics could be wrong... for all you
know there might be a printing mistake in the publishing of figures... or it
could be that the 46K subscribers could not afford to keep the connection..
hence surrendered!

On 10/31/07, Dr D.C.Misra <dcmisra@...> wrote:
>
>
> While checking the figures of Internet penetration in India, to-day, I
> have come across these two figures:*
>
> Number of Internet Subscribers in India:
>
> (i) For quarter ending March 2007 (Q1): 92.71 million
>
> (ii) For quarter ending June 2007 (Q2): 92.25 million (-46K)
>
> Questions:
>
> (a) Where have the 46k subscribers gone? Does it mean 46k persons
> subscribed to Internet and then, finding it not useful, surrendered the
> connection?
>
> (b) Who could be these subscribers- individuals, organizations or cyber
> café owners?
>
> (c) Does it indicate any short-term aberration in the growth of Internet
> in India or indicates a long-term secular trend of Internet plateauing
> in India?
>
> (d) Does it mean that Internet is not meeting any felt needs of
> individuals, etc. and thus is being abandoned by old subscribers?
>
> (e) Are any statistics available any where which indicate Internet
> unsubscription in India (typically camouflaged in new subscriber data)?
> (ISPs may have them)
>
> (f) Are the statistics wrong (some technical glitch in
> collection/compilation of data) or am I missing something?
>
> Dr D.C.Misra
>
> October 31, 2007
>
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> * http://www.trai.gov.in/trai/upload/Reports/37/ReportQE1.pdf, Annex
> 3.2, Chart II, p-35.
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