Amazing! With 150 cr gigabytes per month of mobile data consumption India is now world’s no 1 mobile data consuming… https://t.co/PnE4ihLdxo — Amitabh Kant (@amitabhk87) 1513908042000

NEW DELHI: Lending a testimony to Indians' romance with mobile internet consumption, Niti Aayog CEO (chief executive officer) Amitabh Kant , on Wednesday, tweeted that India has become "world’s no 1 mobile data consuming country." The tweet further said that,"It’s(India) mobile data consumption is higher than USA & China’s mobile data consumption put together."Kant however, did not quote any source for the information.In the recent past, India has witnessed a surge in mobile data consumption, mainly with the introduction of Reliance Jio , which further led to competition in data plans among telecom companies. Earlier this year, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani had also claimed India's numero uno position in mobile data usage adding," Jio users consumed more than 100 crore GB of data per month on the Jio network and that’s more than 3.3 crore GB a day."Earlier this week, a report released by investment firm Omidyar network provided an insight to Indians' nature of mobile data use. The report claimed that an average mobile internet user in India spends almost 70 per cent of the time on apps like Facebook and WhatsApp, and music and entertainment apps. This is much more than by people in the US, who visit these apps for only 50 per cent of the time they spend on the mobile phone. It further said that on an average, a user in India spends 200 minutes a day on mobile apps, lower than the US average of 300 minutes a day.