{"id":988657,"date":"2026-01-30T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988657"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:08:48","slug":"indias-internet-user-base-crosses-950-million-in-2025-iamai-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/indias-internet-user-base-crosses-950-million-in-2025-iamai-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s internet user base crosses 950 million in 2025: IAMAI report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India&#8217;s internet user base crossed 950 million in 2025, driven largely by rapid growth in rural connectivity, rising short-video consumption, and increasing adoption of AI, according to a report released by IAMAI on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The report also revealed that rural India accounts for 57% of India&#8217;s active internet users, i.e, approximately 548 million active users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India&#8217;s internet user base crossed 950 million in 2025, driven largely by rapid growth in rural connectivity, rising short-video consumption, and increasing adoption of AI, according to a report released by IAMAI on Thursday. The report also revealed that rural India accounts for 57% of India&#8217;s active internet users, i.e, approximately 548 million active users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}