Room to grow: Internet access and smartphone ownership in India Non-internet
Only about a fifth of India’s roughly 1.2 billion people are online, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, and the world’s biggest technology companies are clamoring for this large, untapped user base. Facebook recently tried (and failed) to implement its “Free Basics” internet program, and Google is also vying for the vast Indian internet market.
India lags behind other emerging nations in internet access and smartphone ownership. Across the 21 emerging and developing nations surveyed in 2015 (including India), a median of 54% have internet access and 37% own smartphones. In India, however, only 22% have internet access and only 17% have a smartphone.
Room to grow: Internet access and smartphone  | ownership in India  | 100 %  | Non-internet  | 100 %  | Cellphone butNOT  | 83  | users  | smartphone owners  | 79  | 78  | 65  | 61  | Internet  | Sma rrphone  | users  | owners  | 22  | 20  | 16  | 12  | 2013  | 2014  | 2013  | 2014  | 2015  | 2015  | Note: Internet users are adults who use the uninetlestumsure.upreprow  | smartphone.  | Source: Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey,  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 