India generates largest data per consumer worldwide: Airtel’s Rahul Vatts

NEW DELHI: India is the largest mobile data-using country globally, hitting close to 40 GBs a month per customer, and data sovereignty could only be delivered through in‑country data centers and a network of points of presence, a top Bharti Airtel executive said.

“India is already generating the largest data per consumer. We are already hitting around 38 to 40 GBs per month per customer. And if a lot of predictions now take us towards 70-75 GB per customer in the next 3-4 years, we are already generating a humongous amount of data,” said Rahul Vatts, director, corporate affairs & group chief regulatory officer at Bharti Airtel said.