Data traffic in India grew 60 times over past 5 years: Nokia
Data traffic in India grew approximately 60 times over the last five years which is amongst the highest globally
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New Delhi: Data traffic in India grew approximately 60 times over the last five years which is amongst the highest globally, said a new Nokia report on Thursday. Interestingly, the report revealed that there are already two million active 5G devices in use across the country.
In 2020, the data traffic grew by 36 per cent year-over-year primarily due to rise in 4G data consumption as 4G subscribers surpassed 700 million with 100 million new additions during the year, said the Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) 2021 report on mobile broadband performance in India.
The research showed that 4G alone constituted nearly 99 per cent of the total data traffic consumed across the country in 2020. "The phenomenal growth in data consumption in India will drive demand for enhanced broadband and fixed capacity," Sanjay Malik, Senior Vice President and Head of India Market, Nokia, said in a statement.
"Industry 4.0 with various IoT and enterprise use-cases, immersive applications experience (AR/VR), smart home, factory and public safety use cases will spur LTE, 5G growth and data usage further."
According to the study, the average monthly data usage per user reached 13.5 GB in December 2020, growing over 20 per cent annually owing to an increase in data subscribers and mobile video consumption.
