Indian smartphone users to double by 2022 to 829 mn on low prices: Cisco

The report suggested that the average data consumed on a smartphone in India by 2022 will be 17.5 GB, up from 3.5 GB consumed per smartphone per month in 2017

India's base of smartphone users is expected to double to 829 million by 2022, driven by the falling cost of smartphones as well as mobile data, according to estimates from networking giant Cisco.   

Since the launch of Reliance Jio in September 2016, which forced the entire telecom industry to lower prices of data, internet consumption has shot up multi-fold. From 108 petabytes of data consumed per day in 2017, the traffic may hit 646 petabytes per day in 2022, as per Cisco's Virtual Networking Index, an annual global forecast report.

The report suggested that the average data consumed on