KOLKATA: Mobile internet users are expected to reach 213 million in India in June 2015, and the statistics of 2014 showed 74% increase in 2014 in the mobile internet users.
This was stated in the annual survey report given by Nokia Networks regarding the data traffic in India. The report showed that 3G usage have been doubled from 2013 which showed a 52% increment in the users.
Out of the total 74% data consumption in 2014, 52% of usage is of 3G data which is a good rise from 42% in January 2014. The overall growth of 3G is strong with a 114% increase and while many are moving over to the high speed network, 2G is still holding its ground in the country. The Nokia Networks report notes that growth here is at 41% which shows that 2G data consumption is stabilizing.
3G usage has already surpassed that of 2G in September of last year with the former consuming being 3.2 times more data. The average requirement per user is pegged at 688MB which is 29% north from 2013’s estimates. 2G, on the other hand, also witnessed an increase of 48% with an average consumption of 216MB per month.
As you probably know, 4G is yet to get widely deployed in the country, but there are a few circles where services are already live. The report notes that a total of 5.5 million LTE capable devices are available, but LTE subscribers total to only 85000. In other news, the company has already partnered with Bharti Airtel to deploy 4G services in various circles across India and it’s even in talks with other service providers for offering assistance in LTE rollout.
These aforementioned details are part of the Nokia Networks’ MBit Index study which is an annual report that measures the growth and performance of mobile broadband services from the start of the year to its end.
