However, one must hasten to add the fact that the per capita use of the technology in India is always much higher than the actual subscribers. This has happened in several other technologies in the past. When the number of television sets were fewer, it was observed that a large number of persons of the neighbourhood would come and watch programme. Several neighbours and friends use a telephone. Even the newspaper is often borrowed and read by more than one family.
Similar thing happens about the Internet.
A large number of users avail of this facility. The Internet is also very much an institutional arrangement in India. That means in an office one account will be used by a much greater number of persons. Internet has been put to very innovative uses in India. These examples clearly indicate that the Internet need not remain a toy for the rich or yet another additional source of information for a few elite members of the society.