{"id":65041,"date":"2025-10-10T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65041\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:00:10","slug":"nearly-47-of-indians-offline-women-33-less-likely-to-use-internet-gsma-ettelecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65041\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 47% of Indians offline, women 33% less likely to use internet: GSMA, ETTelecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" class=\"unveil\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"width:100%;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/124442780.cms.png\" captionrendered=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>New Delhi: Around 47% of Indians are still offline, and women are 33% less likely than men to use mobile internet, global telecom industry <a id=\"189426\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"100\" keywordseo=\"GSMA\" source=\"Orion\" class=\"news-keywords\" href=\"https:\/\/telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tag\/gsma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GSMA<\/a> said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>GSMA, Head of Asia Pacific, <a id=\"20754336\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"julian-gorman\" source=\"keywords\" class=\"news-keywords\" href=\"https:\/\/telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tag\/julian+gorman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Gorman<\/a>, at India Mobile Congress 2025, told PTI that the connectivity gaps are mainly due to the higher price of handsets and also technical skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nearly 47% of Indians are still offline, and women are 33% less likely than men to use mobile internet. This entrenched <a id=\"26845534\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"Digital-gender-divide\" source=\"keywords\" class=\"news-keywords\" href=\"https:\/\/telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tag\/digital+gender+divide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">digital gender divide<\/a> could hold back inclusive growth if not urgently addressed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p> Gorman said that the data is based on research by <a id=\"20398772\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"gsma-intelligence\" source=\"keywords\" class=\"news-keywords\" href=\"https:\/\/telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tag\/gsma+intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GSMA Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GSMA in a report said India&#8217;s digital economy has surged threefold to $370 billion in 2023, from $108 billion a decade ago, and is on track to surpass $1 trillion by 2030. &#8220;However&#8230;.unless critical innovation and adoption gaps are closed, momentum could falter before India achieves its 2047 digital sovereignty goals,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report said while India leads in digital public infrastructure and mobile rollout, it lags in research and development investment, private sector innovation, and retention of skilled professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without urgent action, India risks a &#8220;brain drain dividend&#8221; that benefits global competitors instead of fuelling domestic growth,&#8221; the report said.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                    Published On Oct 10, 2025 at 08:20 AM IST<\/p>\n<p>\n                Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals.<br \/>\n                Subscribe to Newsletter to get latest insights &amp; analysis in your inbox.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                    All about ETTelecom industry right on your smartphone! <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telecom_barcode.png\" alt=\"\"\/>                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Around 47% of Indians are still offline, and women are 33% less likely than men to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[47456,7599,47458,47455,85,47457,47453,123,46,47459,125,42920,47454],"class_list":{"0":"post-65041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-digital-gender-divide","9":"tag-gsma","10":"tag-gsma-intelligence","11":"tag-gsma-report","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-india-digital-economy","14":"tag-indians-offline","15":"tag-internet","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-julian-gorman","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-telecom-news","20":"tag-women-internet-usage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}