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<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>New Delhi: The total volume of wireless data usage<\/a> increased by more than 7 folds in 2017-18 to 32397 petabytes in the first quarter of 2021-22, according to the Economic Survey of India<\/a>. Further the average wireless data usage increased from just 1.24 GB per month to a whooping 14.1 GB for the same period.

The survey said the rise in mobile towers to 6.93 lakhs across the country reflected that the telecom operators had seized the opportunity to build up an infrastructure that will be fundamental in boosting the government’s digital India campaign.

Giving an update of the nationwide optical fibre network till September end, it said, “Under the flagship
BharatNet<\/a> project 5.46 lakh km optical fiber cable has been laid, a total of 1.73 lakh gram panchayats (GP) have been connected by optical fiber cable and 1.59 lakh gram panchayats are service ready on OFC.\" The Prime Minister had set a target of 1000 days to connect all the six lakh villages through fiber cable in his independence day speech last year.

Detailing the type of internet connections, the document which precedes the union budget each year said, “while 67.2 percent of internet subscribers had narrowband connections and 32.8 percent had broadband connections in 2015, the composition had reversed by June 2021 with only 4 percent of subscribers having narrowband and 96 percent with broadband connections.”

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Telecom reforms to spur liquidity, create enabling environment for 5G investments: Economic Survey<\/a><\/h2>

In addition to telecom infrastructure expansion, a slew of measures have been taken to bring about reforms, the survey said, outlining the structural and procedural reforms undertaken in the Indian telecom sector that represents the world's second-largest telecommunication market.<\/p><\/div>

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<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>New Delhi: The total volume of wireless data usage<\/a> increased by more than 7 folds in 2017-18 to 32397 petabytes in the first quarter of 2021-22, according to the Economic Survey of India<\/a>. Further the average wireless data usage increased from just 1.24 GB per month to a whooping 14.1 GB for the same period.

The survey said the rise in mobile towers to 6.93 lakhs across the country reflected that the telecom operators had seized the opportunity to build up an infrastructure that will be fundamental in boosting the government’s digital India campaign.

Giving an update of the nationwide optical fibre network till September end, it said, “Under the flagship
BharatNet<\/a> project 5.46 lakh km optical fiber cable has been laid, a total of 1.73 lakh gram panchayats (GP) have been connected by optical fiber cable and 1.59 lakh gram panchayats are service ready on OFC.\" The Prime Minister had set a target of 1000 days to connect all the six lakh villages through fiber cable in his independence day speech last year.

Detailing the type of internet connections, the document which precedes the union budget each year said, “while 67.2 percent of internet subscribers had narrowband connections and 32.8 percent had broadband connections in 2015, the composition had reversed by June 2021 with only 4 percent of subscribers having narrowband and 96 percent with broadband connections.”

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Telecom reforms to spur liquidity, create enabling environment for 5G investments: Economic Survey<\/a><\/h2>

In addition to telecom infrastructure expansion, a slew of measures have been taken to bring about reforms, the survey said, outlining the structural and procedural reforms undertaken in the Indian telecom sector that represents the world's second-largest telecommunication market.<\/p><\/div>