India’s Telecom Subscriber Numbers for Quarter Ended September 2017

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