new delhi indians used about 12 gb data per month on an average in 2019 the highest consumption globally and this is expected to rise even further to about 25 gb gigabytes per month by 2025 driven by affordable mobile broadband services and changing video viewing habits according to telecom gear maker ericssonericsson in its mobility report for june 2020 said indias data traffic growth continued its upward trajectory and it remains the region with the highest usage per smartphone and per monthgiven that only 4 per cent of households have fixed broadband smartphones are the only way to access the internet in many casestotal traffic is projected to triple reaching 21 eb exabytes per month in 2025 this comes from two factors high growth in the number of smartphone users including growth in rural areas and an increase in average usage per smartphone patrik cerwall head of strategic marketing insights and executive editor of the ericsson mobility report said on tuesdaythe average traffic per smartphone is expected to increase to around 25 gb per month in 2025 cerwall addedhe said that around 410 million smartphone users are expected to be added in india by 2025global total mobile data traffic reached around 33 eb per month by the end of 2019 and is projected to reach 164 eb per month in 2025cerwall said the largest share of traffic increase during the covid19 pandemic has been absorbed by fixed residential networks which have experienced a 20100 per cent growthhowever many service providers also noticed a spike in demand on their mobile network he addedciting a recent study conducted by ericsson consumer lab he said 83 per cent of the respondents from 11 countries had claimed that ict information and communications technology helped them a lot to cope with the lockdownwhile 57 per cent said they will save money for financial security onethird plan to invest in 5g and an improved broadband at home to be better prepared for a potential second wave of covid19ericssons latest report noted that the average monthly mobile data usage per smartphone in india region continues to show robust growth boosted by the rapid adoption of 4glow prices for mobile broadband services affordable smartphones and peoples changing video viewing habits have continued to drive monthly usage growth in the regionericsson expects the global number of 5g subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 28 billion by the end of 2025by the end of 2025 5g subscriptions are expected to account for around 30 per cent of all mobile subscriptions at that timelte 4g will remain the dominant mobile access technology by subscription during the forecast period it saidit is projected to peak in 2022 at 51 billion subscriptions and decline to around 44 billion subscriptions by the end of 2025 as more subscribers migrate to 5g it addedin india 18 per cent mobile subscriptions are forecast to be 5g and 64 per cent lte 4g and the remaining on 2g3g in 2025mobile broadband