India has the highest data usage per smartphone

Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone by lota-putty on Friday June 21, 2019 @09:26AM (#20242289)

3.5GB/day, 100 SMS/day, unlimited Local/STD calls @ $2/Month at a remote town in India.

At peak hours I see 1+ Mbps, 8+ Mbps during least(10pm - 8am) traffic hours.

I use DNSFilter along with DoT & DoH for Smartphone. Stubby for my Laptop's Ubuntu over USB hotspot.

Yes, JIO changed data market with its bullish 4G investment. Prior to that, subscribers could ride free on with zero/month for only incoming calls. Now every subscriber has to pay $2-4/annum for the same ride.

After this mandatory fee, I suspect #subscribers in overall fell. Edit: Indeed latest stats see a dip in Mar-2019. Last year it saw double digit growth in subscriptions. https://main.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/PR_No.40of2019....

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Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone by tellme_throwa on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:07AM (#20242611)

Hello,. also from a remote village but for most people jio has been economical.

I remember browsing at ~10 KiB/s on BSNL 2G network at 20MB/day for INR 4, now at nearly same cost, I can get much better internet, though not even near to foreign speeds.

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