India has the highest average data usage per smartphone, reaching 9.8 gigabytes (GB) per month at the end of 2018.
According to Ericsson Mobility Report, increased numbers of LTE subscriptions, attractive data plans being offered by service providers, and young people’s changing video viewing habits have driven monthly usage growth.
It also stated that India smartphone users willing to pay more than 66 percent premium for 5G services.
The report also predicts that the total mobile data traffic per month in India is expected to increase at a CAGR of 23 percent from 4.6 exabytes (EB) in 2018 to 16 EB by 2024.
“The total smartphone subscriptions in the region will reach 1.1 billion by 2024 growing at 11 percent CAGR, whereas the total mobile broadband subscriptions in India are expected to grow at CAGR of 13 percent from about 610 million in 2018 to 1.25 billion in 2024. Mobile broadband technologies now make up more than 50 percent of subscriptions,” the report stated.
As the evolution towards more advanced technologies continues in India, Long Term Evolution (LTE) is forecast to represent 82 percent of mobile subscriptions by the end of 2024 compared to 38 percent in 2018.
(UNI)
