Im a mathematician,and math favours India: Google chief

Speaking at the question and answer session with Rusbridger,Schmidt emphasised his upbeat outlook on the growth of Internet and broadband users in the country. There are roughly 600 million mobile phone users in India,there are about 130 million Internet users,but there are only about 20 million broadband users. So by any definition India is under-penetrated. And in our book8230; we talk a lot about the importance of the next 5 billion, he said in dialogue with Rusbridger at the Nasscom event signifying the launch of an initiative on catalysing start-ups in India.

Indulging in some crystal-ball gazing,Schmidt said: So imagine a situation 5 to 10 years from now. When there is a billion people on the Internet. Will they be significantly different from the first 100 million users. Im sure there will be many more languages and they wont be so English focused.

To achieve this growth,the Schmidt said,India needs to build out the infrastructure and to lower the cost of devices. I think the sum of all that is that this place is going to be rocking.

Surprisingly,the chief of the company that developed the Android operating system and has half a billion devices running it,uses a BlackBerry. I am a BlackBerry user. I like the keyboard of BlackBerry, said Schmidt answering some rapid-fire questions from Rusbridger.

With PTI inputs

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