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> And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify. 1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their fr
by blocked_again 8y ago
> And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.
1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their friends? Seriously?
- notafrog 8y agoWhen you put it that way it almost doesn't make sense, but if you change "1 million" to 0.075 percent of the population, it starts to.
- rrrazdan 8y agoData is cheap in India.
- chosenbreed37 8y agoI'm amazed at how cheap it is. I think that even after adjusting for purchasing power the average person can afford generous data packages.
- harias 8y agoData tariffs fell 93% and usage surged 25x in three years (2014-2017)[0]. This was brought about by Jio, which targeted to increase revenue per user which it actually did. https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/data-tariffs-fall-93-in-last-three-years-telecom-department/63537339 https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/data-tarif...
- namanyayg 8y ago1GB/day 4g for 90 days costs a total of ~$6 in India.
- colinbartlett 8y agoI recently visited India and was shocked at how cheap the data plan was. By far the cheapest data I’ve used anywhere in the world.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoMany countries in the EU have cheap data plans. In Italy, for example, there's Kena Mobile, which sells 50GB for 6 EUR.
- neom 8y agoCan you realistically do a gig of data in a day on a 4G connection?
- irth 8y agoI used to do 120G/month when I had a limit that high, in Poland, for around 8$/month (I was able to use 2G and 3G and everything in between, too, but most of the time I was on 4G)
- dingo_bat 8y agoJust watch 5-6 Youtube videos on a decent phone (1080p or 1440p) and you're done.
- blocked_again 8y ago1 GB data is like four 720px 8 minute YouTube videos.
- icebraining 8y agoMaybe not to their friends; e.g. Tinder is apparently pretty popular in India and it has integration with Spotify.
- mayankkaizen 8y agoIn India, for approximately 2 USD per month, you get 1.5 GB 4G data per day and unlimited calls. These days, data limit is nothing to worry about in India.
- Waterluvian 8y agoHow does that scale? Because that sounds awesome if compared to just my own phone plan. But if you say that also fills the role of my home internet, then it's about 1TB too little.
- govg 8y agoUsually home internet is via other providers, who also have cheap plans. For instance, ACT Giga is 1Gbps, 2.5 TB for about 100 USD per month. Post this limit, speeds usually drop to 1Mbps.
- Waterluvian 8y agoInteresting. Thanks! I was under the impression that most Indians can't get broadband at home.
- prab97 8y agoIn all tier 1 cities, which are at least 10, you can get 100Mbps broadband with about 750GB to 1TB data for close to 20 dollars a month. In villages (at least 100 thousands of them) and small towns (roughly 8 thousand of them) where most population resides, the story is different. Only wired broadband provider for them is govt. owned named BSNL whose service is quite unreliable. 4G high speed wireless is accessible everywhere for cheap though.
- govg 8y agoYou're right in that "most" Indians probably do not have broadband access / 4G access. But the urban centers certainly do,and they have enough by way of people to become a huge market. To put it in context, there are at least 46 cities with population > 1M (2011 census), and the top 7 cities by population will certainly have access to broadband as well as cheap 4G. These 7 will account for 50M - 55M in population. In comparison, the US has 10 cities with > 1M population ( as far as I can see on Wikipedia). So even when you account for the lesser internet penetration in India as a whole, the number of people who can possibly access streaming services is quite large.
- zcwbz 8y ago>1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their friends? Seriously? It's evident you don't know India... Most young people in India have dozens of pictures on Facebook of themselves pretending to talk on their mobiles with seemingly expensive sunglasses on. It's like their own particular ice bucket challenge.
- arkitaip 8y agoThis sounds like the same nonsense that old people tell about kids all over the planet.