India to Have Over 800 Million Smartphone Users by 2022: Cisco Study

The number of smartphone users is expected to double to 829 million by 2022 from 404.1 million in 2017, projects a new Cisco written report.

This proliferation of smart devices will propel India'south per capita data consumption to near fourteen gigabytes (GB) by 2022 from 2.four GB in 2017, according to Cisco'southward latest "Visual Networking Index (VNI)" report.

"Past 2022, the smartphone data consumption will increase past 5 time in Republic of india — which proves the authorization of smartphones every bit the communications hub for social media, video consumption, communications, and business applications, too as traditional vox," Sanjay Kaul, President, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Service Provider Business, Cisco, said in a statement on Mon.

The Net is made up of thousands of public and private networks effectually the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across information technology.

1 zettabyte is approximately equal to a one thousand exabytes, a billion terabytes, or a trillion gigabytes.

In India alone, IP networks carried 108 petabytes of data per mean solar day in 2017 and are expected to reach 646 petabytes per solar day by 2022.

This is primarily driven by the growth in the number of smartphone users, said the written report.

By 2022, smartphones will account for 44 percentage of total Cyberspace traffic, up from xviii per cent in 2017. In 2018, PCs accounted for 41 percent of full IP traffic, but by 2022 PCs will business relationship for only 19 percentage of IP traffic, the research showed.

Maxim that more traffic will be created in 2022 than in the 32 years since the Internet started, the report added that Bharat will be a major driver of this with the total number of Internet users reaching 840 million (60 per centum of the population) by 2022 from 357 meg (27 percent of the population) in 2017.