64% of India will use internet by 2023; phone usage to surge to 68%: Report

Growing number of mobile users coupled with low cost of data are seen as major reasons behind this surge

India will witness more than two fold increase in the number of internet users with an estimated 907 million users by 2023, a Cisco report said. The number of internet users at the end of in 2018 stood at 398 million.

According to the annual internet report by the global networking solutions provider, this will lift the percent of the population in the country using internet to 64 per cent as compared to 29 per cent in 2018. This will be almost at par with the global average which is expected to be around 66 per cent by the same