India Dynamics

India-Dynamics

 

* According to Nokia’s India Mobile Broadband Index 2022

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 vast deployment of 4G, and now 5G networks. India is among the top three global economies terms of digital consumers – with over 816 million internet subscribers in 2022, 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 will require the necessary infrastructure to support this growth.

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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 is progressing to become a $1-trillion digital economy by 2025 and 5G will play a major role*”

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.

Average monthly data traffic per user grew 26.6% (y-o-y) in 2021 in India.

  • With CAGR of 31% in the last five years mobile data consumption reached 17GB per user per month.
  • 5G introduction will further boost the data traffic growth