The Mobile Sector: Growth, Challenges, Opportunities & Response to Covid-19
India's telecom status, mobile growth in Asia-Pacific, 2G/3G connections growth, 5G adoption & graph. Explore insights on the industry's response to the pandemic.
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The Mobile Sector --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Growth, challenges, opportunities, & its response to Covid-19
India: The current telecom status India has the second largest telecom network in the world. Total subscriber base in the country stood at 1,177.02 million as on January 2020 India s active internet subscription reached 530 million in 2018 at a run rate of 65 million users per year in the last two years. According to global industry body for mobile operators, GSMA, 12-13% users will continue to use 2G handsets till 2025 in India According to GSMA, 81% Indians use 4G phones, followed by 3G and 2G at 6%. 67% of subscriber base in India are equipped with 4G capable devices Over the period 2023 2040, it is estimated that 5G technologies will make an overall contribution of approximately $450 billion to the Indian economy (0.6% of GDP by 2040) 2
The mobile growth in Asia Pacific Expected penetration of unique mobile subscribers (in%) 70 63 60 In 2020, the expected subscriber penetration 60 59 57 for 2025 for the Asia-Pacific region was 70%, 50 50 48 3% lower than what was the expected figure 40 in 2018, according to a GSMA Report. Bangladesh India Pakistan 30 20 10 0 2018(in %) 2020(in %) 3
The Mobile Growth: 2G, 3G 3G connections growth 2G Connections growth 2025 2019 2025 2019 22% 13% Pakistan Pakistan 54% 20% 6% 5% India India 33% 11% 18% 30% Bangladesh Bangladesh 51% 40% 4
The mobile growth: 5G in Asia Pacific Country 5G Adoption With the adoption of 5G, the Asia-Pacific is estimated to become one of the most advanced markets of the technology in the whole world. 54% Australia 47% Japan Countries like Australia, South Korea and Japan are aiming to become 5G global leaders. 67% South Korea 5
The Mobile Growth: 5G Graph 5: 5G connections(in millions) growth 1400 By 2025, around 40% of the 5G global connections would be from the Asia- Pacific, which would be powered by the three largest smartphone markets--India, Indonesia and China. 1154 1200 1090 1000 933 889 746 800 698 572 600 518 381 400 328 200 134 111 10 10 0 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 -200 Pre-Covid Post-Covid Linear (Pre-Covid) Linear (Pre-Covid) 6
Indian telecom industrys response to the pandemic Airtel Activated intra-circle roaming (ICR), to ensure that operators could provide seamless connectivity while India went under lockdown. It added the facility of free digital self-assessment test for Covid-19 symptoms on the Airtel Thanks app. It provided access to thousands of titles on its e-books platform--Juggernaut Books-- previously known as Airtel Books. It also offered over 10,000 movies and shows plus LIVE TV for customers. Airtel extended the pre-paid pack validity for over 80 million customers -- all under-privileged households -- till April 17, 2020, and credited an additional Rs 10 of talk time in the pre-paid accounts. The measures were targeted to benefit migrant workers and daily wage earners who were impacted due to the lockdown. 7
Indian telecom industrys response to the pandemic JIO Jio also came up with several measures for administering seamless connectivity to its subscribers during the lockdown. Through its basic JioFiber broadband offer, the company offered to provide 10Mbit/s connectivity without any service charges. In a press release at the end of March, Jio said it would provide double the data across all plans for JioFiber subscribers to help them work from home. Jio doubled the data for all JioFiber users. JioCinema on its Facebook page put up a list of movies in different categories to keep people entertained and encourage them to stay indoors. It added the facility of checking for Covid-19 symptoms on its app. 8
Indian telecom industrys response to the pandemic Vodafone/Idea Vodafone/Idea also launched special packs for its prepaid users Vodafone made a five-point plan which included maintaining the quality of service of networks, providing network capacity and services for critical government functions, improving dissemination of information to the public, facilitating working from home and helping the small and micro businesses within their Supply Chain and improving governments insights into people s movements in affected areas. BSNL In the early days of the lockdown, BSNL extended the validity of the plan till April 20 so that subscribers could continue to get incoming calls. The offer was applicable at no additional cost and was valid for all subscribers whose validity expired after March 22. BSNL also offered Rs 10 free talk time to all prepaid user whose mobile balance reached zero. A new offer called Bonanza was rolled out. Under this, new and existing users were able to avail up to 4 months of extended validity by choosing a broadband single plan for a longer period. 9
Thank You --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jadeite s Research Team
