India is said to have 651 million smartphone users in 2019, as per a latest report by Cisco. The number of smartphones grew 54 per cent during 2014, reaching 140 million in number and the number of smartphones will grow 4.7-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching 651 million mark, said the report.
“Apart from smart connections driven by the IoE (Internet of Everything), the trend of low-cost smartphones will also bring critical mass to the sector and further drive user growth and data traffic in India. Cisco’s latest VNI Report gives a insight into the exponential growth of mobile data in India as a result of increasing adoption of smart mobile devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections as the IoE takes shape in the country. We will see a tremendous increase in mobile video in India, which along with increasing speeds and faster wireless networks will fuel the creation of the data business over the next few years,”
said Sanjay Kaul, Managing Director Service Provider Sales (India & SAARC), Cisco.
In India, there were 590.3 million (47 per cent of India’s population) mobile users in 2014, up 18 per cent from 500 million (40 per cent of India’s population) in 2013, added the report. There will be 895.6 million (67 per cent of India’s population) mobile users by 2019, up from 590.3 million in 2014, a CAGR of 8.7 per cent, Cisco forecasts.
Globally, the report forecasts that by 2019 there will be 5.2 billion mobile users (up from 4.3 billion in 2014).In addition, the Cisco report also stated that number of tablets grew 1.7-fold during 2014, reaching 2.03 million in number and is expected to grow 9.2-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching 18.7 million.