User base for 2G, 3G shrinking as upwardly mobile take to 4G

KOLKATA: The days of plain vanilla mobile services in India appear to be numbered.

The 2G user base, although still in a majority, is dwindling rapidly as consumers get hooked to data, galvanising 4G customer additions for all the major telcos over the past year. Experts predict that even 3G is expected to fade away, making way for 4G to be the only standard in India in two years.

The 2G subscriber base, which accounted for over 70% of India’s mobile users just over a year ago, shrank to under 58% in November 2018 and analysts expect them to completely disappear by 2021.