Despite a slow rise in PC sales last year and in decline in number of cyber cafes,Internet users grew in the country by a whopping 42%.According to the reports of survey done by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI),total Internet users grew to 71 milion users in 2009 compared to 57 million and 46 millon in 2008&2009 respectively.Also there are two catagories of Internet users in India.These are

(a)Active users:Those who have used internet atleast once last one month.
(b)Claimed users:Those who have used internet sometime but not in the last one month.

Survey also found some barriers to Internet users in India in early years.These are:

(a)Lack of awareness of use of medium(accounts for 47% of total).
(b)Cyber cafes charges are high(11.7%).
(c)unavailability of good cyber cafes(8.9%).

Survey conducted in some major cities found that Mumbai was on top with highest number of households using Internet followed by Delhi,Chennai,Kolkata.Cochin was placed at seventh place after Pune.Growth was mainly due to reduced price of cheap access devices like notebooks that are now available at Rs 20000.
Now future prospects is that number of internet users worldwide is expected to touch 2.2 billion by 2013 and India is projected to be third largest by that time after China and US respectively.It implies that this rise is mainly due torise in sticky application such as social networking sites,chats and downloadings which made internet giving serious competition to TV in many households.