India's mobile subscriptions to reach 800 million by 2022 By CIOReviewIndia

India's mobile subscriptions to reach 800 million by 2022

CIOReviewIndia | Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 06:28 IST

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Mobile UserIn India, the number of smartphone users is expected to increase immensely by end of 2022. According to Cisco’s new report, mobile users will rise to 829 million by 2022. The growing number of mobile subscriptions is resulting in growing India’s per capita data consumption. Data consumption has grown up to nearly 14.9 gigabytes by 2022, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index.

“By 2022, the smartphone data consumption in India will increase by five-times which proves the dominance of smartphones as the communications hub for social media, video consumption, communications, and business applications, as well as traditional voice,” said Sanjay Kaul, President, Asia-Pacific, and Japan, Service Provider Business, Cisco.

Since the starting of the internet, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP have flowed across it, whereas one zettabyte is equal to a thousand Exabyte, a billion terabytes or a trillion gigabytes. In India only, 108 petabytes of data are carried through IP network per day in 2017 and also expected to reach 646 petabytes per day by 2022. The report also shows that smartphones will account 44 percent of total internet traffic by 2022, up from 18 percent in 2017.

The telecommunication company, Ericsson also published a report which states that India has witnessed an addition of 31 million new mobile subscribers in the third quarter of 2018, second highest in global. However, Global saw an addition of 120 million subscriptions, with China 37 million additions and Indonesia adding 13 million mobile subscriptions.

The ‘Mobility’ report of Ericsson also states that the video consumption will remain drive data usage and monthly data consumption per smartphone, will increase from 6.8 gigabytes in 2018 to 15 GB by 2024 growing at CAGR of 14 percent.

"LTE rollouts in India will continue and it is expected to be the most dominant access technology by 2024 accounting for nearly 81 percent of all mobile subscriptions in India compared to 30 percent in 2018,"said Nitin Bansal, Head of Ericsson India and Head of Network Solutions, South East Asia, Oceania and India.

India has become a vast market for the mobile manufacturer. From the availability of cheap smartphones to unlimited data packs, people are benefiting from all the strategies which are leading to rising in the number of mobile subscribers.

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