Data from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) shows India now counts 958 million active internet users. Rural India accounts for 57% of them, roughly 548 million people, and rural usage is expanding nearly four times faster than urban usage. About 44% of users rely on AI-based features such as voice search, chatbots and image search, and 193 million people use more than one device. However, around 38% of the population, nearly 579 million people, still remain offline.