How India’s telecom industry has fared post Jio’s launch, in charts

It’s a little over three years since Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd launched services and changed the face of the industry with large amounts of data and voice usage limits. The period has been marked by a huge spike in data usage and voice traffic and a sharp decline in consumer spends on telecom.

The numbers are staggering. Data collated by Kotak Institutional Equities shows that at an industry level, data volumes rose 4160% to 20.3 billion GB in the July-September 2019 period. This is in comparison to the April-June 2016 quarter, or just before Jio’s launch. On a per customer basis, data usage rose from merely 500 MB per month in 2016 to 10.6 GB last year.