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Detailed explanation-1: -India’s Mobile was 22.9% of total Internet traffic in 2016, and will be 42.0% of total Internet traffic in 2021. In India, mobile data traffic will grow 7-fold from 2016 to 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 49%.

Detailed explanation-2: -As of 2021, the average data consumption per user per month across 3G and 4G networks in India was at 17 gigabytes. 4G data traffic contributes to 99 percent of the overall data traffic. The compound annual growth rate of data consumption was 31 percent over the five years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Populous markets that launch 5G early are likely to lead traffic growth over the forecast period. 5G’s share of mobile data traffic was around 10 percent in 2021, and this share is forecast to grow to 60 percent in 2027.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thanks to the ever-increasing popularity and affordability of web-enabled smartphones and tablets, the number of mobile internet users in the United States has steadily increased, reaching an all-time high of over 282.5 million users in 2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mobile accounts for approximately half of web traffic worldwide. In the fourth quarter of 2022, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 59.16 percent of global website traffic, consistently hovering around the 50 percent mark since the beginning of 2017 before permanently surpassing it in 2020.