List of telecom companies in India

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This is a list of mobile, DTH, ISP, wireless and wireline operators in India.

Wireless operators

As of 31 august 2022, there are 114.91 crore (1.14 billion) wireless subscribers including inactive users in India according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

Mobile operators

Market share of mobile telecom operators in India as of 31 august 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  Jio (36.48%)
  Airtel (31.66%)
  Vi (22.03%)
  BSNL Mobile (9.58%)
  MTNL (0.24%)
Operator Logo Subscribers[1] (crores) Active Users(crores) Technology Ownership
1

Jio

Reliance Jio Logo (October 2015).svg 41.924[1] 38.463

Jio Platforms

2

Airtel

36.381[1] 35.766[1]

Bharti Airtel Limited

3

Vi

Vodafone Idea logo.svg 25.314[1] 21.429[1]


Government of India (33%)
Vodafone Group (31.8%)
Aditya Birla Group (18.3%)
Private equity (16.9%)

4

BSNL Mobile

11.014[1] 5.623
  • GSM – 900/1800 (EDGE), GPRS
  • 3G 2100 Mhz (PAN India), 3G+ HSPA, HSDPA
  • 850(B5)/2100(B1)/2500(B41) LTE, TD-LTE, FD-LTE, LTE-A
  • VoLTE[8]
  • 5G NR, 600 MHz band; 40 MHz in the 3600-3670 MHz band, and 400 MHz in 24 GHz band
  • WiMAX, WiFi,
  • VoNR (Tested in IIT Madras)

Government of india

Defunct operators

Operator Started Operations Ceased Operations Fate
Telstra 1990 2000 Merged into Axiata Spice Communications[9]
Escotel 1996 2004 Merged into Idea Cellular[10]
Hutch Essar 1999 2007 Made by Vodafone Group and Essar Group
Axiata Spice Communications 1992 2008 Merged into Idea Cellular[11]
S Tel 2008 2012 Licence cancelled by the Supreme Court of India
Etisalat 2010[12] 2012 Licence cancelled by the Supreme Court of India[13]
BPL Mobile (Loop Mobile) 1995 2014 Ceased operations after expiration of licence[14]
Virgin Mobile India, T24 Mobile 2009[15] 2015 Merged into Tata Docomo [16]
Videocon Telecom 2010[17] 2016 Shut down following sale of spectrum to Bharti Airtel[18][19]
MTS India 2009 2017 Acquired by Reliance Communications[20]
Idea Cellular 2002 2018 Merged with Vodafone India to form Vi[21][22]
Vodafone India 2011 2018 Merged with Idea Cellular to form Vi[21][22]
Aircel 1999 2018 Bankrupt[23]
Telenor India 2009 2018 Acquired by Bharti Airtel[24]
Tata Docomo 2009 2019 Acquired by Bharti Airtel[25]
Reliance Communications 2004 2019 Bankrupt[26]
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 1986 2020 Subsidiary of BSNL until merger is complete[27][28]

Direct-to-home (DTH) operators

There are 4 pay DTH service providers and one free-to-air service provider (DD Free Dish) in India.[29]

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 (TRAI).[29] DD Free Dish has over 4 crore (40 million) subscribers.[29]

List of pay DTH service providers

Market share of pay DTH operators in India as of 31 March 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

  Tata Play (33.23%)
  Airtel digital TV (26.24%)
  Dish TV (22.10%)
  Sun Direct (18.43%)
Rank Operator Logo Market Share Ownership
1 Tata Play
Tata Play 2022 logo.svg
 33.23%[30] Tata Sons (60%)
Walt Disney (30%)
Temasek (10%)[31]
2 Airtel digital TV 26.24%[30] Bharti Airtel (100%)
3

Dish TV

DishTV India Logo - New.svg
 22.10%[30] Essel Group (55%)
Videocon (45%)
4 Sun Direct
SD-HD-Logo.svg
 18.43%[30] Sun Network (80%)
Astro Group (20%)
5 DD Free Dish Government of India
Notes
  • DD free dish is Free To air Service hence their subscriber data is not shown in TRAI performance report.[30]
  • On 22 March 2018, Dish TV merged with d2h, creating the then largest DTH provider in India.[32]

Wireline operators

Fixed-line operators

As of 31 august 2022, there are 2.597 crore (25.97 million) wireline subscribers in India according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

Market share of fixed-line telecom operators in India as of 31 july 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  Jio (28.31%)
  BSNL (27.46%)
  Airtel (23.86%)
  MTNL (10.02%)
  Tata Teleservices (6.08%)
  Vi (2.54%)
  Quadrant (1.11%)
  RCom (0.66%)
Operator Subscribers (lakh) Ownership
1 Jio 73.52 Jio Platforms
2 BSNL 71.32 Department of Telecommunications
3 Airtel 61.97 Bharti Airtel
4 MTNL 26.01 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
5 Tata Teleservices 15.77 Tata Group
6 Vi 6.59 Government of India & Vodafone Idea Limited
7 Excitel 7.08 Excitel

td.

8 Reliance Communications 1.59 Reliance ADAG

Multiple-system operators (MSOs)

See also: List_of_cable_television_companies § India

As of 31 December 2021, there are 1753 MSOs (some also have an ISP license).[29]

List of top MSOs by subscribers

Operator Total Active Subscriber Base[29]

(in lakhs)

1 GTPL Hathway Ltd 79.06
2 Siti Networks Ltd 74.44
3 Hathway Digital Ltd 54.8
4 Den Networks Ltd 46.00
5 Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt

Ltd

38.65
6 Kerala Communicators Cable Ltd 30.11
7 Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation

Ltd

27.47
8 NXT Digital Ltd (HITS) 22.45
9 KAL Cables Pvt. Ltd 20.99
10 Fastway Transmissions Pvt Ltd 20.74
11 V K Digital Network Pvt. Ltd 19.14
12 NXT Digital Ltd (Cable TV) 12.54
13 Asianet Digital Network Pvt. Ltd 11.79

Internet service providers (ISPs)

As of 31 august 2022, there were 767 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband (wired + wireless) services; the top 5 services constituted 98.39% market share of the total broadband subscribers according to TRAI.[1] These service providers were :

Market share of broadband (wired + wireless) services in India as of 31 august 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  Jio (52.31%)
  Airtel (27.52%)
  Vi (15.13%)
  BSNL (3.17%)
  ACT (9.26%)
  Others (1.61%)
Operator Subscribers (crores) Ownership
1 Jio 42.580 Jio Platforms
2 Airtel 22.398 Bharti Airtel
3 Vi 12.312 Government of India Vodafone Idea Limited
4 BSNL 2.580 Government of India
5 ACT 0.213 Atria Convergence

The following table shows the top 5 wired broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 31 august 2022.

Rank Provider Subscribers

(lakh)

Ownership
1 Reliance Jio 65.6 Jio Platforms
2 Airtel 51.3 Bharti Airtel Limited
3 BSNL 38.8 Government of India
4 ACT 21.3 Atria Convergence
5 Hathway 11.3 Reliance Industries Limited

The following table shows the top 5 wireless broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 31 august 2022.

Rank Provider Subscribers

(crores)

Ownership
1 Reliance Jio 41.924 Jio Platforms
2 Airtel 21.885 Bharti Airtel Limited
3 Vi[Note2 1][33][34] 12.312[Note2 1] Government of India Vodafone Idea Limited
4 BSNL[Note1 1][35] 2.192

[Note2 2][35]

Government of India
5 Intech Online Pvt Ltd 0.023

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

Provider Ownership
Alliance Broadband
APSFL Government of Andhra Pradesh
Asianet Broadband Rajan Raheja Group
DEN Networks Reliance Industries
Kerala Vision KCCL
Muft Internet Muft Internet
RailTel Corporation of India Government of India
Sify Sify Group
Spectranet Shyam Telecom Limited
Tata Communications Tata Group
Tata Play Tata Sons (60%)
Walt Disney Company (30%)
Temasek Holdings (10%)

For enterprise/wholesale only

Provider Ownership
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd CtrlS Labs Limited
ERNET Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
GAILTEL Government of India
National Knowledge Network
(for educational institutions only) 		Government of India
PowerGrid Government of India
Tulip Telecom Tulip Enterprises
Muft Internet Muft Internet
Notes
  1. On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy with NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other service providers due to closing down of most of the consumer services.[36][37]
  2. The services of Telenor India have been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.[38]
  3. On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular to form Vi.
  4. 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

Name Headquarters Type
Beetel Gurgaon private
C-DOT New Delhi Government Organisation
EXICOM Gurgaon private
HTL Ltd. Chennai partially state-owned
HFCL New Delhi private
Nexge Technologies Chennai private
MYMO Wireless Bangalore private
Sasken Technologies Bangalore private
Tejas Networks Bangalore private
United Telecoms Limited Bangalore Government of India entreprise
Vihaan Networks Gurgaon private
WiSig Networks Hyderabad private
Sterlite Technologies Pune private

See also

Notes

  1. ^ BSNL and MTNL merger approved by Government of India.

References

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  38. ^ Gulveen Aulakh. "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.

External links

  1. ^ a b After adding subscribers of You Broadband Because it is subsidiary of Vi.
  2. ^ After adding subscribers of MTNL to BSNL, because MTNL will merge with BSNL.
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