You may be right, Wot. Well, I also don't take reported figures too seriously as they usually tend to vary from one report to the other. However, reports such as this are important sensors to what might happen in this industry. There are some subtle, yet crucial, points in this report that are giving us some hints on the future. Sensing the initial trend is perhaps the way to go.
Here is another related report you might want to read.
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/s...sp?artid=87326
[quote=Wot]Good news for idns but the figures don't quite add up , if all 150 million english speakers are on the web there seems to 100 million missing.
Possibly the "family" group makes up the missing numbers ?
››› INDIA
IN - 1,112,225,812 population - Area: 3,166,944 sq km
Capital City: New Delhi - GNI p.c.US$ 620 ('04), per World Bank
50,600,000 Internet users as of Dec./05, 4.5% penetration, per C.I.Alma.[/quote]