India\u2019s 4G device base surpassed 607 million units in 2020, reaching a penetration level of 77%, consequently the number of VoLTE devices grew to 563 million in the same year, a new report revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, despite the unavailability of the latest 5G technology in the country, the number of active 5G devices stood at 2 million, according to Nokia Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBIT) 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cA double-digit growth is expected in 2021 for the smartphone industry as people embrace hybrid work models, e-learning, and consume content over OTT platforms,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
However, about 100 million subscribers having LTE capable devices are still on 2G\/3G services.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the data traffic grew 36% on-year primarily due to the rise in 4G data consumption as 4G subscribers surpassed 700 million mark, with an addition of 100 million of new subscribers during the year.<\/p>\n
4G alone constituted nearly 99% of the total data traffic consumed across the country and the average monthly data usage per user reached 13.5GB in December 2020, growing 20% on-year as mobile video consumption increased.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe launch of low-cost 4G smartphones will provide the necessary headroom for data growth with a significant number of 2G\/3G subscribers potentially upgrading to a 4G smartphone,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
On the fixed broadband side, the report noted that India has only 22 million subscribers with significant growth opportunities in the segment.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband access through fixed wireless access (FWA) and FTTx will help in driving new revenue stream for operators as they prepare to launch 5G services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, despite no 5G, India\u2019s mobile broadband penetration stands at approximately 63% (2020f). However, the fixed broadband penetration stands only at 7.5% (2020f) of households.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe phenomenal growth in data consumption in India will drive demand for enhanced broadband and fixed capacity. Industry 4.0 with various IoT and enterprise use-cases, immersive applications experience (AR\/VR), smart home, factory, and public safety use cases will spur LTE, 5G growth and data usage further,\u201d said Sanjay Malik, Senior Vice President & Head of India Market, Nokia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s 4G device base surpassed 607 million units in 2020, reaching a penetration level of 77%, consequently the number of VoLTE devices grew to 563 million in the same year, a new report revealed on Thursday. On the other hand, despite the unavailability of the latest 5G technology in the country, the number of active 5G devices stood at 2 million, according to Nokia Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBIT) 2021. \u201cA double-digit growth is expected in 2021 for the smartphone industry as people embrace hybrid work models, e-learning, and consume content over OTT platforms,\u201d the report noted. However, about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798031","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}