The demand for global connectivity continues to rise, with content growth being a major catalyst for increasing bandwidth demand. India is at the forefront of the growing need for data, which is being driven by increasing smartphone penetration and the deployment of 4G networks. India is among the top three global economies terms of of digital consumers – with over 630 million internet subscribers in 2019, India is the second largest internet subscriptions market in the world. This growing pattern of data consumption is expected to continue over the next decade and requires the necessary infrastructure to support this growth.
- India will continue to rank amongst the top data consuming contries.
- Average usage/user/month to grow 136% from 19.5 GB in 2022 to 46 GB in 2027.
Whilst consumer data tariffs within India are amongst the lowest in the world, international capacity continues to rank amongst the most expensive in the world.
Under the National Digital Communications Policy 2018, the Government of India has signaled its’ intent to pursue policies to promote the development of a digital economy. Datawave Networks and the SING cable support these policy objectives.