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Half the Indians with mobile connections to own smartphones by 2020: Report

According to the report, India is expected to add 206 million new subscribers in the next 3 years

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Nirmalya Behera Bhubaneswar
The smartphone adoption in India is likely to touch 49 per cent of total connections by 2020, compared with 28 per cent in 2016.

"During 2016, India overtook the US to become the second-largest smartphone market in the world (behind only China). And, with adoption at just under 30 per cent, the country will be the main driver of smartphone growth in the Asia-Pacific region over the next few years, adding 360 million smartphone connections by 2020", shows a report on the mobile economy Asia Pacific 2017 by rating agency CARE Ratings.

"According to the GSMA report, the smartphone adoption