Worldwide mobile data pricing:

Avg cost of 1GB of data
India ( #1): $0.09
US ( #188): $8.00

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My 80+ year old grandparents in India are more "Phone-smart" than my parents in Pittsburgh. It is so nuts to me. For context, my grandmother doesn& #39;t even speak english and my mom studied computer science.

Jio has recently been behind this, Airtel is the OG in the space. I actually wrote a business school case on how Airtel won in India (in & #39;09). It was awesome - I went to India with my mentor CK Prahalad and we had access to the management team at Airtel. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/emlbxwe00g4y6q5/AABjOD8OAQsvMyv395u3hHS-a?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/emlbxw...

At the time, Airtel was one of the most profitable mobile carriers in the world despite having the lowest ARPU. They focused on being profitable on a per-minute basis, and outsourced their infrastructure to other providers.