92% of mobile data traffic in India in 2018 due to 4G: Report

New Delhi: Led by growing popularity of video streaming in local languages on various over-the-top (OTT) applications, India witnessed overall mobile data traffic growth by 109 per cent in 2018, with 4G contributing a massive 92 per cent, Nokia’s annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index said on Thursday.
The report on the mobile broadband performance in India revealed that average data usage grew by 69 per cent in 2018 to touch 10GB a user per month in December.
Significant drop in data tariffs coupled with the availability of economical 4G devices led to the growth of the number of 4G subscribers by 137 per cent. The number of 4G data users now stands at 432 million.