Digital · indicator 301

Cost of 1 GB of mobile data

Modi ahead

No comparable cross-country tariff series runs on this panel's countries back to 1984, so no synthetic counterfactual can be estimated. Reported as observed change in the published national average. The verdict here compares observed Indian figures over time — a weaker basis than the estimated indicators.

2014

269

baseline

2024

8.31

latest observed

Change

-97%

2014 vs latest observed

What this measures

Cost of 1 GB of mobile data, in rupees per GB. A falling number is an improvement. Reported by Department of Telecommunications / TRAI, Rajya Sabha reply, December 2024.

It stood at 269 in 2014, and under Modi’s current India reached 8.31 by 2024 — a fall of 97%. That is an improvement against India’s pre-2014 figure.

No comparison country reports an equivalent series, so there is no Rahul's India to compare against. This is a before-and-after reading, not a treatment effect.

Decade totals

rupees per GB · Department of Telecommunications / TRAI, Rajya Sabha reply, December 2024

Why no counterfactual

No comparable cross-country tariff series runs on this panel's countries back to 1984, so no synthetic counterfactual can be estimated. Reported as observed change in the published national average.

Observation quality

2014: 269
2024: 8.31
2026: 8.31

Average retail price of one gigabyte of mobile data. Government figure given in a written Rajya Sabha reply: ₹269/GB in March 2014 against ₹8.31/GB in June 2024. The fall follows the entry of a new operator in 2016 and the tariff war that followed, not a government programme.

The counterfactual is 'India without the 2014 structural break', estimated from comparator countries. It is not a forecast of any individual's policies.