No doubt, Reliance Jio has transformed the way, people use the Internet. Since its launch, Reliance Jio’s subscriber base has grown at a scorching pace and now the company has a total of 28 crore subscribers in India. According to the new research by Cable.co.uk, India offers the world’s cheapest mobile data packs.
There is a massive difference in prices for one gigabyte (GB) of data around the world. The research from UK-based cable.co.uk found that Indian internet users will pay an average of just Rs 18 for one gigabyte (GB) of data against a global average of Rs 600. Even though the speed of the internet varies depending on the area you’re located within a country, India has the most inexpensive mobile data rates in the world.
The Cable.co.uk report collected data from 6,313 mobile data plans in 230 countries between October 23 and November 28, 2018. In India, researchers studied 57 plans and found that 1GB of data was available in the country for as low as Rs 1.41 and for a maximum of Rs 98.83.
Surfing the mobile data is also cheap in Kyrgyzstan with the average for one GB data price coming to $0.27, $0.49 in Kazakstan, $0.51 in Ukraine and $0.56 in Rwanda. Mobile data get more expensive in Zimbabwe where a user in Zimbabwe would spend an average of $75.20 for 1GB of data. While the 1GB of data costs $12.37 in the US and $6.66 in the United Kingdom.
“A country whose young population has a particularly high technological awareness, India offers a vibrant smartphone market, with strong adoption and many competitors. Data, therefore, is quite staggeringly cheap,” said the report. With over 430 million smartphone users, India is the second largest smartphone market in the world after China.
“Despite a healthy UK marketplace, our study has uncovered that EU nations such as Finland, Poland, Denmark, Italy, Austria, and France pay a fraction of what we pay in the UK for similar data usage. It will be interesting to see how our position is affected post-Brexit,” said Dan Howdle, the Cable.co.uk website’s telecom analyst.
