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Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by z3phyr »

harias wrote: post #7

For 6 dollars 50 cents, you get 1.5 GB/day for 91 days. Data-plans on offer: https://www.jio.com/en-in/4g-plans And they manage to remain profitable (only-telco in India that reported profit this quarter) : https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/relian...

I have a PS4, and before Jio, I purposely did not update my games (Witcher3 had a 20GB update). Even after getting a Jio connection, it was too time consuming. And then, I found out I have 3 10GB vouchers! And I usually get more, the more ads I consume.

EDIT: English sentence structure

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by z3phyr »

purplex wrote: post #23
totaldude87 wrote: post #3

Jio revolution is the main reason for this, after Jio almost every other vendor is giving you 30Gb(1Gb per day) for $5-6 , no wonder, there is a %30-40 utilization of data. Majority of this utilization would be on Streaming, Torrent downloads etc etc, Also to note that , many of the calls made in India are VOLTE calls..

I totally agree with you. Even though Jio has blocked many torrent website, still people find holes to download the content. Normally people subscribe for the 1 or 1.5 GB/day plan, which was earlier very much affordable compared to other operators. Not others too have reduced their prices to stay in competition. One advantage is that Jio was totally new to the market so they started with 4G networks directly. The con…

The torrent websites might be blocked, but the actual torrent protocol works. You just need to find magnets.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by ilikehurdles »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #24

Can someone explain why in countries with established infrastructure, automation and cheaper capital cost (albeit higher labor cost) the internet cost is around 10-20x more than in India? Additionally, it's often ~5x slower than in 2nd world countries...

Because they can charge more, so they do.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by lota-putty »

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....

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by philjohn »

krzyk wrote: post #28
taneq wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy crap, why am I paying $35/mo for 500mb? >.<

Where are you? In Poland I pay ~ 13.30 USD for 12 GB per month (with additional 12 GB on top of that for 1 year) + unlimited calls/sms/mms. And my plan is pretty crappy in comparison to currently available ones.

In the UK Three does a sim only plan that offers unlimited data (I've pulled down 100GB in a month before), tethering and use abroad (including the US) for £20 a month on a two year contract.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by swarnie_ »

z3phyr wrote: post #52
purplex wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree with you. Even though Jio has blocked many torrent website, still people find holes to download the content. Normally people subscribe for the 1 or 1.5 GB/day plan, which was earlier very much affordable compared to other operators. Not others too have reduced their prices to stay in competition. One advantage is that Jio was totally new to the market so they started with 4G networks directly. The con…

The torrent websites might be blocked, but the actual torrent protocol works. You just need to find magnets.

Exactly, i never bought the "its blocked" excuse.

We've had major sites blocked in the UK for years but no one can keep up with proxybay.app and its endless rehosts.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by toasterlovin »

piyush_soni wrote: post #47
harias wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The gap is closing real fast (views in the last 30 days) MKBHD - 39 Million[0] Technical Guruji - 41.5 Million[1] [0] - https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/marquesbrownlee [1] - https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCOhHO2ICt0ti9KAh-QH...

Wow. That's insane! And still Technical Guruji doesn't get as favorable treatment from Google as MKBHD does (like giving phones one month before release to try, calling him in all conferences etc.)

MKBHD's audience has more money to spend.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by bildung »

the_duke wrote: post #43
dzhiurgis wrote: post #24

Can someone explain why in countries with established infrastructure, automation and cheaper capital cost (albeit higher labor cost) the internet cost is around 10-20x more than in India? Additionally, it's often ~5x slower than in 2nd world countries...

Comparing dollar prices in isolation makes almost no sense. You need to at least look at average/median monthly income and compare via some normalized metric, like a variant of Purchasing Power Parity [1] . Even if you do this, comparisons are hard. Completely different economies, market structures and target groups, subsidies, taxation, regulation, etc can all have a big effect. Looking at India, it has a GDP per Ca…

Absolutely correct to note his, but e.g. Germany is above the USA in that PPP list, but for €8 I get 3GB of data and unlimited phone calls and sms.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by Roritharr »

totaldude87 wrote: post #3

Jio revolution is the main reason for this, after Jio almost every other vendor is giving you 30Gb(1Gb per day) for $5-6 , no wonder, there is a %30-40 utilization of data. Majority of this utilization would be on Streaming, Torrent downloads etc etc, Also to note that , many of the calls made in India are VOLTE calls..

Jio is fascinating. I once held a talk at an event where their Interim CISO Karsten Nohl was also speaking.

The way Jio was built and what challenges they faced trying to build a gigantic mobile operator from scratch and building it secure from day one are a story i'd like to read a book about, but I'm already glad he held a talk about it.

The most interesting part was their realization that there was nearly no "new & secure" hardware available they could buy off the shelf, most came with old unpatched versions of software, many had components that simply had no update functionality at all, some had but required manual onsite intervention for updates, just what you need when you want to connect one of the largest countries on this planet. This was not third-rate stuff from China, he was talking Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei... the name brands involved in this space.

Fascinating and astounding what went on at this time at Jio and i'm grateful that sometimes people that deeply care about these issues get into these positions and get to fight these demons.

Re: India has the highest data usage per smartphone

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

jbarham wrote: post #35
dzhiurgis wrote: post #24

Can someone explain why in countries with established infrastructure, automation and cheaper capital cost (albeit higher labor cost) the internet cost is around 10-20x more than in India? Additionally, it's often ~5x slower than in 2nd world countries...

Mobile data in Canada is notoriously expensive. The official justification is that it's a large, sparsely populated country. The actual explanation is regulatory capture by a cozy/corrupt domestic oligopoly that has successfully lobbied the government to stop foreign competitors. Like Canada, Australia is also a very large, sparsely populated country but mobile data is fast and reasonably priced (e.g., https://www.al…

Even Telstra is offering 60GB / month for $49

https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/sim-only-plans

I’d be all over that but it says the plan is only available for new services and I’m rather fond of my mobile number.

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