Aircel registers 82% data usage growth in Jharkhand

Telecom service provider Aircel has registered a 82 per cent growth in data usage and 35 per cent in its customer base during the last six months in Jharkhand, a company official said today.
"We have recorded a growth 35 per cent on account of customer base in Jharkhand," Arvind Singh Shekhawat, Regional Manager (Central), of Aircel told reporters here.
As part of the network expansion exercise, he said Aircel has significantly enhanced capacity in all its sites across the city and added 54 sites that would redefine the 3G data usage experience with a maximum speed of upto 7.2 Mbps.

Shekhawat said the company had introduced a special recharge of Rs 255 offering one GB of 3G data as well as unlimited local calling from Aircel to Aircel and 25,000 seconds of local/national calling to any network.
He added that Jamshedpur contributed 43 per cent revenue from data usage compared with 22 per cent by central region of Aircel comprising Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The smartphone penetration in Jamshedpur was around 50 per cent because of high literacy rate and the people are data savvy here, which was reason behind the company recording such a high growth, he claimed.

The company's have been registering double digit data usage growth every months in Jamshedpur, he said.