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This is a list of countries by smartphone penetration. These numbers are based on the top countries by percentage of population owning a smartphone (so smaller countries are absent) and come from Newzoo's Global Mobile Market Report (the numbers were last updated in June 2021).
Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [Note 1] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household surveys or from Internet subscription data. [4]
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users [3] (both fixed and mobile phones) with over 1.19 billion subscribers as of September 2024. [4] It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by multiple large-scale telecom operators and the ensuant hyper-competition between them.
This list ranks the countries of the world by the number of mobile phone numbers in use. As an important caveat, this list does not provide the number of mobile phones in use. It is common for each SIM card has a separate phone number, so phones with multiple SIM cards will have multiple phone numbers.
The Internet penetration rate in India is medium and accounts for 52.4% of the population compared to the global average, which is around 66%. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Another issue is the digital divide where growth is biased in favour of urban areas; according to 2010 statistics, more than 75 per cent of the broadband connections in the country ...
The term "smart phone" (in two words) was not coined until a year after the introduction of the Simon, appearing in print as early as 1995, describing AT&T's PhoneWriter Communicator. [14] [non-primary source needed] The term "smartphone" (as one word) was first used by Ericsson in 1997 to describe a new device concept, the GS88. [15]
Internet Live Stats, Real Time Statistics Project. Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics, Miniwatts Marketing Group. "40 maps that explain the internet", Timothy B. Lee, Vox Media, 2 June 2014. "Information Geographies", Oxford Internet Institute.
Smartphone penetration vs. desktop use differs substantially by country. Some countries, like Russia, still have smartphone use as low as 22.35% (as a fraction of all web use), [134] but in most western countries, smartphone use is close to 50% of all web use. This doesn't mean that only half of the population has a smartphone, could mean ...