I realized later that you were the OP and not Om. Pardon my oversight.

Regards,
Rima.

I am not sure of the criteria used in coming up with the posted results, but in India, I believe we use “personal” bandwidth mostly for emails/chats, downloading content (illegal content, many times, from file sharing services), and viewing pictures of friends/family. In other words, I don’t see an average Indian (a non-tech person) use Internet for much other. Of course, this is a generalization; in specific cases, we do have some excellent bloggers from various walks of life in India sharing their thoughts/perspectives. But not much user content is generated in India as compared to in, say, “innovation-driven economies”.

That besides the fact that high-speed Internet penetration is extremely low in India. Reasons for this could be many starting from regulatory authority (TRAI) not doing the needful to amateur business understanding of telco companies in the ISP space to lack of access to state owned telecommunications infrastructure at affordable rates by ISPs. Nonetheless, the picture is less dismal than what it was a few years back. Let us hope the opening up of 3G spectrum leads to something concrete in near term future.

Regards,
Rima.

To give an example: Low income families use up a higher percentage of income, than the rich folks. That DOES NOT mean low income people are doing more with their money than the rich people. In fact, the rich people might be living a higher quality of life and enjoy better benefits on a smaller percentage of their income.

To summarize, the US might just be a bandwidth poor country making max use of available resources.