India tops the world for smartphone data usage

[GucciGang]

 

Internet usage in the world is on the rise, as more and more people can go online through accessible, cheap smartphones. This is especially true for India, where the budget market is striving. Coupled with the ever-growing LTE network in the country and better deals on unlimited contracts, it's no surprise that India has the highest average monthly mobile data usage per smartphone with 9.8GB per user, as a report from mobile networking and telecommunications company Ericsson states in its yearly report.

 

A lot of people are streaming and sharing video on unlimited connections, which contribute to the biggest chunk of bandwidth growth. Ericsson estimates that LTE will be available to more than 80 percent of users by 2024, which should result in another jump in data usage, leading to an estimated monthly consumption of 18GB per smartphone.

Despite the rapid growth in LTE contracts, half of the users in India are currently still on EDGE and GSM with 48 percent of contracts allowing only the use of these standards — there is a reason why Google is pushing Android One and stripped-down, light versions of its apps so heavily in the country.

Interestingly, the total amount of mobile subscriptions declined in India at the same time. That's due many carriers introducing new minimum fees to tackle the high amount of low-usage, low-paying customers on their networks, who in turn canceled their contracts. Because many Indians have multiple subscriptions with different call or data rates, the average amount of users didn't jump down along with the decline of subscriptions.

 

Another problem plaguing the rapidly growing market is smartphone theft. The Indian Expressreports that the country's government is preparing to roll out an IMEI database, where victims can have their phone's identifier blacklisted, so it can be blocked by carriers. Internationally, this is a common practice that has led to a decline in stolen smartphones.

[Anta Assamey]

Anta population vunte in this technology age its obvious to be top in such things.....  

[dasari]

Yes most of them are good morning messages....

[GucciGang]

Just now, dasari said:

Yes most of them are good morning messages....

porilu cho sweet gallu gantalu gantlu watsapp calls  sollu texting antava 

[kothavani]

But think the opportunity for us , so much smart phone data imagine if we utilize this opportunity already using flipccart, swiggy, ola etc few of them

[sattipandu]

2 minutes ago, Anta Assamey said:

Anta population vunte in this technology age its obvious to be top in such things.....  

You jumped the gun, it's about per head consumption 

[dasari]

1 minute ago, GucciGang said:

porilu cho sweet gallu gantalu gantlu watsapp calls  sollu texting antava 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-because-indians-are-sending-millions-of-good-morning-texts-1516640068

[dasari]

5 minutes ago, kothavani said:

But think the opportunity for us , so much smart phone data imagine if we utilize this opportunity already using flipccart, swiggy, ola etc few of them

Some opportunity is there but more misuse...like spreading fake news and messages...

[kothavani]

Just now, dasari said:

Some opportunity is there but more misuse...like spreading fake news and messages...

Iga Adi marcahalemu Bro mana degara Inka koncham ati untadi, but if we use we’ll its wonderful opportunity. Like farmer alerts, school kids , online ordering lot of job creation scope

[Kuppampsyco]

Govt edho kotha restricted platform planning. Thatha debbaki anni dessalu what’sapp duplicates testunar

[alpha_beta]

donno y, I feel as a scam -

jio per day 1.4 gb antadu - use/cheyyi cheyyakapo - usage ki genuinely vundadhu.

mundu i felt doubt on data usage 

So next day naa phn switch off chesa (around 11pm Be4 day), SIM card kuda thisesa - around 7pm next day simcard insert chesi chustae - 50% used for data used ,  limit 1.4b/day antadi.

Cust care i call chesina - they ignore.

PS: JIO ani kaadu, any service provider - airtel, idea - felt d same - no accountability on user usage 

[pottipotato]

8 minutes ago, alpha_beta said:

donno y, I feel as a scam -

jio per day 1.4 gb antadu - use/cheyyi cheyyakapo - usage ki genuinely vundadhu.

mundu i felt doubt on data usage 

So next day naa phn switch off chesa (around 11pm Be4 day), SIM card kuda thisesa - around 7pm next day simcard insert chesi chustae - 50% used for data used ,  limit 1.4b/day antadi.

Cust care i call chesina - they ignore.

PS: JIO ani kaadu, any service provider - airtel, idea - felt d same - no accountability on user usage 

haha.. its perfectly fine. people are using it as their main broadband. obviously per user data ekkuva untadhi.

scam ledhu em ledhu.

[alpha_beta]

1 minute ago, pottipotato said:

haha.. its perfectly fine. people are using it as their main broadband. obviously per user data ekkuva untadhi.

scam ledhu em ledhu.

broadband veru samara, I'm speaking about mobile data (smartphone data usage)

[pottipotato]

1 minute ago, alpha_beta said:

broadband veru samara, I'm speaking about mobile data (smartphone data usage)

do you even know what you are talking about samara?

[alpha_beta]

1 minute ago, pottipotato said:

do you even know what you are talking about samara?

ade cheppedi samara - ii smartphone data usage statistics might not reflect avg usage