Data traffic in India increased 60 times in 5 years, says Nokia report

India witnessed a massive jump in its data traffic. A report by Nokia revealed it grew nearly 60x in the past five years — the highest globally.

In 2020, data traffic grew 36 per cent year-on-year, primarily due to rise in 4G data consumption. 4G subscribers surpassed 700 million, with 100 million new additions during the year, said the Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) 2021 report on mobile broadband performance in India.

The research showed that 4G alone constituted nearly 99 per cent of the total data traffic consumed across the country in 2020.

"The phenomenal growth in data consumption in India