In accordance with TRAI, 5G knowledge utilization was 8,891 PB within the first quarter of the 12 months
5G knowledge utilization accounted for 16.89% of the overall cellular knowledge utilization in India throughout the first quarter of 2024, in line with the most recent knowledge launched by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Throughout the quarter ending in March 2024, 2G know-how accounted for 0.08% of cellular date utilization, 3G for 0.56%, whereas 4G accounted for 82.46% of the overall.
India’s cellular knowledge utilization noticed a quarterly improve of 6.24%, rising from 49,543 petabytes (PB) within the final quarter of 2023 to 52,636 PB in Q1 2024. In accordance with TRAI, 5G knowledge utilization was 8,891 PB within the first quarter, whereas 4G knowledge utilization dominated with 43,406 PB. The information utilization for 2G and 3G was 43 PB and 297 PB, respectively.
The TRAI report additionally confirmed that the overall variety of cellular knowledge subscribers in India surged from 896.68 million on the finish of December 2023 to 913.34 million by the top of the primary quarter of this 12 months. TRAI didn’t disclose the precise variety of 4G and 5G subscribers for native operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Thought and Reliance Jio Infocomm.
Within the cellular web phase, Reliance Jio had 469.73 million subscribers on the finish of March, representing a 51.39% market share, adopted by Bharti Airtel, with 283.10 million subscribers (30.97%).
Reliance Jio Infocomm has already accomplished the rollout of 5G know-how in India. The provider has been quickly increasing its 5G community utilizing Standalone (SA) structure since October 2022. In the meantime, Bharti Airtel beforehand mentioned it anticipated to cowl the complete nation with 5G know-how by March 2024.
Rival operator Vodafone Thought is anticipated to launch its 5G community this 12 months and is at present in negotiations with distributors for 5G contracts, in line with current studies.
The Indian authorities lately confirmed it bought a complete of 141 megahertz of spectrum throughout eight bands, together with 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 3.3 GHz and 26 GHz. The federal government raised a complete of INR113.4 billion ($1.3 billion) within the course of.
Bharti Airtel was the highest bidder within the current spectrum public sale. The provider spent a complete of INR68.6 billion to amass 97 megahertz of spectrum, adopted by Vodafone Thought which acquired frequencies for a complete of INR 35.1 billion and Reliance Jio Infocomm, who spent almost INR10 billion to safe further 5G frequencies.
Business analyst had beforehand mentioned that Indian operators have been solely anticipated to safe further 5G spectrum for licenses because of expire quickly in sure telecoms circles throughout the nation.
The federal government of India was anticipating to public sale greater than 10.5 GHz of capability unfold throughout eight frequency bands for the availability of a variety of providers, together with 5G. The bands supplied on the course of embrace the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 3.3 GHz and 26 GHz.
