India ranks 39th in Asia Pacific on fixed broadband
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (ESCAP), in its report, has placed India at 39th position in terms of
fixed broadband adoption among Asia Pacific countries. The report is named-
‘State of ICT in Asia and the Pacific 2016: Uncovering the Widening Broadband
Divide’.
Highlights:
- India ranks lower than countries such as Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in ESCAP countries in 2015.
- According to the report, 1.3% of population in India subscribed to fixed broadband service in 2015.
- Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Macao, Australia and Singapore topped the list of 53 countries covered in the report.
- Presently, more than half of the global fixed broadband subscriptions are from Asia and the Pacific (52.3%). The report pointed out that this was a dramatic increase from 2005 when subscriptions in the ESCAP region merely constituted 38.1% of the global total fixed broadband subscriptions. However, the subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in the ESCAP region is still behind Latin America and the Caribbean, and far lower than Europe and North America.
- Fixed broadband penetration in Asia and the Pacific is even below the world’s average of 11.2 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in 2015.
