India's mobile data traffic is growing at 67%. But this might fall soon
Catch Team
| Updated on: 10 February 2017, 1:50 IST
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Growth in telecommunication services is an important indicator to measure economy, especially when the world is going digital.In this background, there is the bad news that data business of smartphones is falling. The reason - markets in the metros are saturated.
Should we be concerned? Let's see what the numbers say.
1.1
exabytes
- The data that mobile traffic will reach per month by 2019.
- This is equivalent to the size of 285 million DVDs.
- In 2014, the data consumed was 87.9 petabytes.
51%
- The share of mobile connections that will be 'smart' by 2019.
- This means an increase of 8% from 2014.
- Moreover, 89% of mobile data traffic will be 'smart' traffic by 2019, doubling from 43% in 2014.
1223.50
billion
- Data usage of the top four telecom operators for the quarter ending on September 2015, according to a report in Medianama.
- In total, these telecom operators have 86 million 3G and 109 2G connections, of which 8 million 3G connections and 1 million 2G connection were added and lost respectively for the quarter ending September.
- Interestingly, data consumed on mobile increased by 127% though mobile internet users only increased by 40%, from March 2014 to September 2015, clearly signifying that people were consuming more data on mobile.
314
million
- The estimated number of mobile internet users by the end of 2017, according to Internet and Mobile Association of India.
- Currently the number stands at 159 million users.
- Additional good news: 4G users is projected to have an annual growth rate of 344% between 2013 and 2018.
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