India Tops The World For M-Commerce As Smartphones Drive Net Traffic

India tops a list of the world’s major economies for the greatest share of Internet traffic happening on smartphones and the country’s online shopping companies see a greater share of shoppers transacting on smartphones than even China, data collated by technology analyst Mary Meeker in her latest Internet Trends report showed.

Of all the Internet traffic in India, 65 percent was accounted for by access via mobile phones, according to a Statcounter survey, and 41 percent of all Indians who made online purchases did so on their mobile phones in 2014, the report said, citing Morgan Stanley Research. This is more than in any other major economy including China and the U.S.
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