Mobile Web Usage Passes Desktop Access in India

For the first time, Web usage in India from mobile devices has exceeded Web access from desktop devices.

In August 2012,  mobile accounted for 51.63 percent of Web usage in India, with desktop devices making up the remaining 48.37 percent, according to StatCounter.  

Despite a population in excess of 1.2 billion, India’s Internet penetration rate remains below 10 percent. That makes mobile — both smartphones and feature phones — the most accessible Internet platform for hundreds of millions in the country.






Mobile Web access also is dominated by mobile devices in China as well.