Resumen
The article focuses on the use of Internet in India and its comparison with the People Republic of China, as of November 1, 1998. The number of English-speaking professionals, large middle class and extensive community of Indian expatriates working and studying in North America and Europe suggest that India should be as well developed as a producer and user of information technology as China. However, although India is world famous for software exports including code, finished products and brainpower, the country lags behind its large neighbor in virtually every other sector, including the Internet connectivity. India has had the connectivity since 1989, but China, where connectivity began in 1993, already has twice the number of hosts and three times the number of users. In India, per-capita use and the number of network domains and hosts have developed slowly. The Indian government and people expect this situation to improve in the near future and there will be better growth prospects in this area.