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More than 51% of Airtel’s data connections are on 3G

Mobile Internet revenues for Airtel in India grew by 50.6% year-on-year to Rs 3183.9 crore for the quarter ended December 31 2015 (Q3-FY16), accounting for around 23.1% of total revenues for the company.  Quarter-on-quarter, Mobile Internet revenues were up 10%, from Rs 2,893 crores. 3G Users Airtel has reported total 28.09 million 3G Mobile Internet connections for the quarter ended December 31 30, 2015 (Q3-FY16), registering a 17.57% increase from 23.90 million 3G connections in the previous quarter and up 65.84% from 16.94 million 3G Mobile Internet connections in the same quarter last year. The total mobile Internet base saw a 7.54% increase quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 54.86 million connections, from 51.01 million connections in the previous quarter, while it increased 29.85% year-on-year (YoY) from 42.25 million in the same quarter last year. Note that Airtel’s user base is not comparable with that of Vodafone, which is the only major telecom operator to not weed out incidental Internet users in their notes. Mobile Internet users accounted for 22.5% of the Airtel’s total India connection base for the quarter, up slightly from 21.7% in the previous quarter. The 3G Mobile Internet base accounts for 51.21% of its total Mobile Internet base, up from 40.09% last year. Note that Airtel is the second mobile operator where 3G subscribers are more than 50% of its data connections. Reliance Communications earlier this month reported that nearly 60 of its data connections are on 3G. 3G connections are 11.54% of total mobile base for Airtel, up from 7.79% last year. No 4G information: The company hasn’t disclosed any updated data on how…

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