Online streaming traffic sees 55% overall surge amid lockdown, says report

The internet peak traffic in India saw a 40 per cent rise in March and there was a significant spike in downloads and uploads per user owing to high volume of work and streaming content across all major cities, including Tier-II markets, says a new report.

While the average downloads increased by 66 per cent per user per month, the average uploads surged at 37 per cent per user per month, according to ‘State of Internet Traffic Trend’ report by ACT Fibernet, one of India’s largest wired Internet Service Provider.

The data are based on overall traffic data measured from February to April 2020 in 19 cities.

The Narendra Modi government at the Centre enforced a nationwide lockdown on March 24 to curb the speard of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.