{"id":1000408,"date":"2026-04-01T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000408"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:03:18","slug":"indias-5g-traffic-surges-70-y-o-y-nokia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/indias-5g-traffic-surges-70-y-o-y-nokia-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 5G traffic surges 70% Y-o-Y: Nokia report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pan India monthly 5G traffic grew 70% year on year, reaching 12.9 Exabytes (EB) in 2025, which makes around 47% of overall mobile broadband traffic, as per the latest Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report released by Nokia. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, 5G traffic is expected to surpass 4G within the next quarter or two, Vibha Mehra, Country Manager, India, Nokia said while speaking to the press, as adoption accelerates across both metros and smaller circles. However, at the network level, operators still have significant headroom, with 5G capacity utilisation currently estimated between 30% and 60%, suggesting that traffic can continue to grow without immediate large-scale infrastructure expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pan India monthly 5G traffic grew 70% year on year, reaching 12.9 Exabytes (EB) in 2025, which makes around 47% of overall mobile broadband traffic, as per the latest Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report released by Nokia. Interestingly, 5G traffic is expected to surpass 4G within the next quarter or two, Vibha Mehra, Country Manager, India, Nokia said while speaking to the press, as adoption accelerates across both metros and smaller circles. However, at the network level, operators still have significant headroom, with 5G capacity utilisation currently estimated between 30% and 60%, suggesting that traffic can continue to grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}