India’s mobile data consumption grows four times in past 5 years

Mobile data consumption per individual in the country has grown four times in the past five years, and has been surging further. From 5 GB per individual per month, five years ago, it is now over 20 GB per individual.

The consumption is largely driven by factors such as proliferation of content, network expansion, affordability of data plan and availability of a wide range of affordable devices. Currently, India has more than 830 million active internet users, with over half of them from rural areas.