The number of active users have increased from from 42 million in September 2008, to 52 million in September 2009, registering a year on year-on-year growth of 19 per cent.

The surge in number is mainly due to increase in number of Internet users in villages and urban pockets.

Internet usage has also gone up from 9.3 hrs/week to 15.7 hrs/week, a steep 70 per cent rise, the report said.

“We are happy to note while people in the smaller towns are taking to internet seriously, for a deeper engagement we need to provide them the best innovations in the language of their choice, at an access cost that does not pinch and through a device that they have. Only then this engagement is going to be sustainable,” IAMAI President Subho Ray said.

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1. China :- This Country has the most sophisticated System to censor the internet which is also referred as the ” The Great Firewall of China”. They  can Block any blog or website which they think as non appropriate, They had blocked lot of events like tibet protest or even twitter various times, They have big workforce of around 30,000 heads to monitor all the internet activities in country which is biggest in all world .

2.Iran :- The Government has advanced Semantic Filter System to block all anti-islamic websites in Country.The Government also tries to slow down the speed of broadband from time-to-time to prevent users from western influences like music , movies etc .

3.Saudi Arabia :- They Have complex Censorship in Country and even have criminal  laws for people who access any such website. The Censorship is Done by Internet Service Unit(ISU) while controls all gateways of country and also monitor activities of all ISP  in county

4.United Arab Emirates :- All the telephone and Internet services are owned by government Company Etisalat,which they use to Filter traffic over internet . All websites which are against political, moral or regional issues of country get banned.A survey conducted in 2006 show that 60% of population approve this censorship.

5. Cuba:- Cuba Controls the internet to large extent.All ISP are owned by government which bans all the content which is against the Political social ideology.The punishment is so severe that no body try to access the prohibited Content Because of Fear.All the emails are checked before any body could access them . Selling/buying a personal computer was illegal few months back

6. Syria:- Journalists Consider it as most repressive country in field of internet. Only 2% of whole population has access to internet which is also controlled by Government . All Pornographic and political sensitive websites are banned automatically. You can use only Port 80 to access the internet.If you need FTP or any other service like Skype and VOIP you need to pay extra fees to get authorized.

7. North Korea:- This Country Don’t have internet at all . Only few members of government Have internet connection through satellite link. Few people in country use 3G mobiles and Chinese connections which are censored according to Chinese rules. The country registered .kp as its national extension for TLD but I could not find google.kp anywhere

8. Yemen:- The Government don’t allows freedom of media.The telecommunication infrastructure is under developed and major ISP are owned by Government. Only 1% of Population has access to internet with several limitations.No audio or video data is allowed as it put more load on network.All anti-islamic and Pornographic content is blocked in country.

9. Burma :- Only 1% of population had access to internet. The Price of internet connection is out of reach from major part of population and Broadband connection does not exist for general public.Only pre-approved websites are available to most of the subscribers.Free mail service is blocked compelling people to use state owned email service which could be monitored easily.

10. Pakistan:- Pakistan start Censoring the web in 2000.The main goal is to block all anti-islamic websites. There are only 3 gateways in country which are monitored by government to block all unwanted traffic.

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