This is a list of mobile, DTH, ISP, wireless and wireline operators in India.
Wireless operators
As of 31 October 2022, there are 117.04
crore
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(1.17 billion) wireless subscribers including inactive users in India according to
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is a regulatory body set up by the Government of India under section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997. It is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India. ...
(TRAI).
Mobile operators
Defunct operators
Direct-to-home (DTH) operators
There are 4 pay
DTH service providers and one
free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...
service provider (
DD Free Dish
DD Free Dish (previously known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian free-to-air satellite television provider. DD Free Dish DTH service is owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster Prasar Bharati. It was launched in December, 2004. In March 2 ...
) in India.
As of 31 December 2021, there are 7.099 crore (70.99 million) active paying DTH subscribers, in addition to the subscribers of state-owned DD Free Dish, in the country according to
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is a regulatory body set up by the Government of India under section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997. It is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India. ...
(TRAI).
DD Free Dish has over 4 crore (40 million) subscribers.
List of pay DTH service providers
;Notes
* DD free dish is Free To air Service hence their subscriber data is not shown in TRAI performance report.
* On 22 March 2018,
Dish TV
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Culinary
* Dish (food), something prepared to be eaten
* Dishware, plates and bowls for eating, cutting boards, silverware
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* Dish antenna a type of antenna
* Dish Network, a satellite televisio ...
merged with
d2h
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, creating the then largest DTH provider in India.
Wireline operators
Fixed-line operators
As of 31 october 2022, there are 2.682 crore (26.82 million) wireline subscribers in India according to
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is a regulatory body set up by the Government of India under section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997. It is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India. ...
(TRAI).
Multiple-system operators (MSOs)
As of 31 December 2021, there are 1753 MSOs (some also have an
ISP
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise private ...
license).
List of top MSOs by subscribers
Internet service providers (ISPs)
As of 31 october 2022, there were 874
internet service providers
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(ISPs) offering broadband (wired + wireless) services; the top 5 services constituted 98.40% market share of the total broadband subscribers according to TRAI.
These service providers were :
The following table shows the top 5 wired broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 31 october 2022.
The following table shows the top 5 wireless broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 31 october 2022.
Notes
* Broadband: Internet access with a minimum capacity of greater or equal 512 Kbit/s in one or both directions.
* Narrowband: Internet access with a capacity of less than 512 Kbit/s in one or both directions.
Other notable ISPs
For enterprise/wholesale only
;Notes
# On 28 February 2018
Aircel
Aircel Ltd. was an Indian mobile network operator headquartered in Mumbai that offered voice and 2G and 3G data services. Maxis Communications held a 74% stake and Sindya Securities and Investments held the remaining 26%. Aircel was founde ...
filed for
bankruptcy
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with
NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other service providers due to closing down of most of the consumer services.
#The services of
Telenor
Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...
India have been merged with
Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as (d/b/a) Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Current ...
on 14 May 2018.
# On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular to form
Vi.
#The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel from 1 July 2019.
Telecom R&D firms
See also
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Telecommunications in India
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone) with 1179.49 million subscribers . It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by mega telecom op ...
*
List of mobile network operators
For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes.
Terrestrial
This is a list of the world's thirty largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.
Satellite based
Thi ...
*
Direct-to-home television in India Direct-to-Home (DTH) television is a method of receiving satellite television by means of signals transmitted from direct-broadcast satellites. The Government of India (GoI) permitted the reception and distribution of satellite television signals i ...
*
List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region
This is a list of all mobile phone carriers in the Asia Pacific Region and their respective number of subscribers.
Afghanistan
The country's telecom regulator is the Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ATRA).
American Samoa
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Internet in India
Internet in India began in 1986 and was available only to the educational and research community. General public access to the internet began on 15 August 1995, and as of July 2022 there are 833 million active internet users that comprise 59.28% ...
Notes
References
External links
ISP market share grouped by ASNs used(
APNIC
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APNIC provides numbe ...
report)
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