India’s mobile data traffic grew 109% in 2018, thanks to 4G adoption: Study

Rising hunger for data amongst Indians led to 109 per cent growth in data traffic in 2018, fuelled primarily by 4G adoption, according to a latest study.

Nokia’s annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index study of mobile broadband performance in India showed that the average data usage grew 69 per cent in 2018 to touch 10 GB per user per month in December 2018.

Interestingly, the 4G growth has come at the cost of 3G data traffic, which has suffered a marginal decline in 2018. “By the end of 2018, there were more than five times as many 4G subscribers as there were 3G subscribers,” the study said.