In accordance with TRAI, 5G knowledge utilization was 8,891 PB within the first quarter of the yr
5G knowledge utilization accounted for 16.89% of the whole cell knowledge utilization in India in the course of the first quarter of 2024, in accordance with the newest 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 cell date utilization, 3G for 0.56%, whereas 4G accounted for 82.46% of the whole.
India’s cell knowledge utilization noticed a quarterly enhance 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 info utilization for 2G and 3G was 43 PB and 297 PB, respectively.
The TRAI report additionally confirmed that the whole variety of cell knowledge subscribers in India surged from 896.68 million on the finish of December 2023 to 913.34 million by the tip of the primary quarter of this yr. TRAI didn’t disclose the particular variety of 4G and 5G subscribers for native operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Thought and Reliance Jio Infocomm.
Within the cell web section, 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 service 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 whole nation with 5G know-how by March 2024.
Rival operator Vodafone Thought is anticipated to launch its 5G community this yr and is presently in negotiations with distributors for 5G contracts, in accordance with current experiences.
The Indian authorities just 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 service 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 practically INR10 billion to safe extra 5G frequencies.
Business analyst had beforehand mentioned that Indian operators have been solely anticipated to safe extra 5G spectrum for licenses as a consequence 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 spread of providers, together with 5G. The bands provided 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.