The J curve is coming into play for data in India, Bharti Airtel said during its earnings conference call for the first quarter of financial year, ending June 30th 2013 (Q1-FY14). Mobile Internet users for the company are growing at a healthy pace - data users for the company grew 7% quarter on quarter to 46.5 million, accounting for about 25% of its overall data base. Data revenues grew over 90% year on year to around Rs 850 crore, and usage grew 117% according to the company. Some part of this might be down to pricing changes: Airtel brought data rates for both the pay-as-you-go and pay-as-you-go rates for data packs during the quarter. The company said that the move by one of their competitors to reduce pack rates themselves is unsustainable. Airtel was impacted by the interim verdict of India's Supreme Court, which did not allow it to add more 3G customers where it was not allocated spectrum, but was still operating 3G services via ICR (inter-connect-regime) arrangements. This explains why it added only 0.4 million 3G connections between April and June, while adding 2.7 million 2G customers. The numbers for Q1-FY14, in comparison with the preceding quarter (Q4-FY13): - Total Mobile Internet connections: 46.58 million, up 7% from 43.49 million. - Mobile Internet connections added: 3.09 million versus 2.81 million. - 3G connections: 6.8 million, up 0.4 million from 6.4 million. - 2G connections: 39.8 million, up 2.7 million from 37.1 million - As percentage of total connections:…
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