Consumption of mobile data to grow at 11 GB by 2022, says Ericsson report

Commuters watch videos on their mobile phones as they travel in a suburban train in Mumbai, India, April 2, 2016. With smartphone sales booming and India preparing for nationwide 4G Internet access, India's film and TV industry hopes the ease of tapping your phone for the latest release will generate profits at last, overcoming the problems of woefully few cinemas and rampant piracy. Picture taken April 2, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade - RTSDS09

Mobile traffic is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent and data traffic per smartphone user would grow to 11 gigabytes (GB) per month by 2022.

Indian telecom market will be dominated by 2G and 3G services despite an aggressive push for 4G by the telecom companies by 2022, according to Ericsson Mobility Report.

The report stated that feature phones which do not support apps and quick browsing ability would have 40 percent share in the phone market.

Speaking to TOI, Nitin Bansal, head network product told affordability will remain one of the key factors for feature phones to deliver strong show.

An aggressive push by the telcos and mobile phone companies is likely to result in higher demand for mobile data with pricing becoming affordable.

It said that 3G will constitute the bulk of the subscriber base with 740 million users, 4G will account for 520 million users and 2G will account for 211 million mobile subscribers by 2022.