
Wireless and Wireline Subscribers:
Total Subscribers (wireless + wireline) – 1,206.71 mn
Urban Subscribers – 704.89 mn
Rural Subscribers – 501.82 mn
Market share of Private Operators – 89.51%
Market share of PSU Operators – 10.41%
Teledensity – 93.40
Urban Teledensity – 173.15
Rural Teledensity – 56.71
Total Wireless Subscribers – 1,183.04 mn
Total Wireless Data Usage during July -September 2017 quarter – 5,430,046 TB
Total Wireline Subscribers – 23.67 mn
No. of Village Public Telephones (VPT) – 207,292
No. of Public Call Office (PCO) – 413,275
Internet Subscribers:
Total Internet Subscribers – 429.23 mn
Narrowband subscribers – 104.34 mn
Broadband subscribers – 324.89 mn
Wired Internet Subscribers – 21.35 mn
Wireless Internet Subscribers – 407.88 mn
Urban Internet Subscribers – 299.83
Rural Internet Subscribers – 129.41
Internet Teledensity – 33.22
Urban Internet Teledensity – 73.65
Rural Internet Teledensity – 14.62
Broadcasting & Cable Services:
Number of Private Satellite TV Channels – 877
Number of Pay TV Channels – 300
Number of Private FM Radio Stations (excluding All India Radio) – 322
Number of Pay Subscribers Active with Private DTH Operators – 66.09 mn
Number of Community Radio Stations Licensed – 280
Number of Operational Community Radio Stations – 210
Number of pay DTH Operators – 6
Revenue and Usage:
Monthly GSM ARPU including LTE – Rs. 84
Minutes of Usage (MOU) per subscriber per month – 437 minutes
Total Outgoing Minutes of Usage for Internet Telephony – 283 mn
Average Data Usage of Mobile Subscribers per Month – 1,610 MB
Average outgo per GB data for GSM including LTE (2G+3G+4G) – Rs. 21.22
Service Provider wise Subscriber Base (Wireless + Wireline) (in mn):
Bharti – 285.95
Vodafone – 207.63
Idea – 190.16
Reliance Jio – 138.62
BSNL – 118.61
Aircel – 88.82
Reliance – 73.31
Tata Teleservices – 46.76
Telenor – 46.01
MTNL – 7.01
Sistema – 3.57
Quadrant – 0.26
Total – 1,206.71
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