📋 Tender Overview
Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 31st January, 2025
Particulars
Wireless
Wireline
Total
(Wireless+
Wireline)
Broadband Subscribers (Million)
904.02
945.16
Urban Telephone Subscribers (Million)
631.60
663.83
Net Addition in January, 2025 (Million)
5.17
-4.06
1.11
Monthly Growth Rate
0.82%
-11.18%
0.17%
Rural Telephone Subscribers (Million)
525.41
528.20
Net Addition in January, 2025 (Million)
1.18
-0.18
0.99
Monthly Growth Rate
0.23%
-6.21%
0.19%
Total Telephone Subscribers (Million)
1157.00
1192.03
Net Addition in January, 2025 (Million)
6.35
-4.24
2.10
Monthly Growth Rate
0.55%
-10.80%$
0.18%
Overall Tele-density@(%)
82.06%
2.48%
84.54%
Urban Tele-density@(%)
125.02%
6.38%
131.40%
Rural Tele-density@(%)
58.07%
0.31%
58.38%
Share of Urban Subscribers
54.59%
92.03%
55.69%
Share of Rural Subscribers
45.41%
7.97%
44.31%
In the month of January 2025, 14.14 million subscribers submitted their requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP). With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 1079.19 million at the end of December-24 to 1093.33 million at the end of January-25, since implementation of MNP.
Number of active wireless (Mobile) subscribers (on the date of peak VLR#) in January 2025 was 1065.01 million.
Note:
$ Decrease in wireline Telephone subscription is due to accounting of 5G FWA Telephone subscription under wireless w.e.f Januray2025, earlier being erroneously reported under wireline.
@ Based on the projection of population from the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011 - 2036.
# VLR is acronym of Visitor Location Register. The dates of peak VLR for various TSPs are different in different service areas.
The Urban/Rural subscribers, net addition & monthly growth have been calculated considering the revised Subscribers reported by BSNL for the month of December 2024.
Information in this Press Release is based on the data provided by the Service Providers.
Broadband Subscribers
As per the information received from 1180 operators in January 2025, in comparison to 1192 operators in December 2024, the total Broadband Subscribers increased from 944.96 million at the end of December-24 to 945.16 million at the end of January-25 with a monthly growth rate of 0.04%. Segment-wise broadband subscribers and their monthly growth rates are as below: -
Segment-wise Broadband Subscribers and Monthly Growth Rate in the month of January, 2025
Segment
Subscription
Subscribers
(in million)
% Change
Dec-24
Jan-25
Wired subscribers
Fixed (wired) Broadband
(DSL, FTTx, Ethernet/LAN, Cable Modem, ILL)
41.19
41.15
-0.09%
Fixed Wireless Broadband
(FWA-5G, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Radio, Satellite)
5.21
4.98
-4.39%
Mobile Broadband
(Handset/Dongle based)
898.57
899.04
0.05%
Total Broadband Subscribers
944.96
945.16
As on 31st January 2025, top five Broadband
(Wired + Wireless) Service providers
Name of the Service Provider
Subscriber base
(In million)
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
476.58
289.31
126.41
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
35.77
Atria Convergence Technologies Limited
2.28
Market Share of Top Five Broadband (Wired+Wireless)
98.43%
The graphical representation of the service provider-wise market share of broadband services is given below: -
Service Provider-wise Market Share of Broadband
(wired + wireless) Services as on 31st January, 2025
As on 31st January, 2025, Top Five Fixed (Wired) Broadband Service providers
S.N.
Name of the Service Provider
Subscriber base
(In million)
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
11.48
8.55
4.26
Atria Convergence Technologies Limited
2.28
Kerala Vision Broadband Ltd
1.28
Market Share of Top Five Fixed (Wired) Broadband Service Providers
67.67%
As on 31st January, 2025, top five Wireless (Fixed wireless & mobile) Broadband Service providers
S.N.
Name of the Service Provider
Subscriber base
(In million)
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
465.10
280.76
126.41
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
31.52
Intech Online Pvt. Ltd
0.09
Market Share of Top Five Wireless Broadband Service Providers
99.98%
Wireline Subscribers
Wireline subscribers decreased from 39.27 million on December 24 to 35.03 million on January 25. Hence, the net decrease in the wireline subscriber base was 4.24 million with a monthly rate of decline -10.80%. This decrease is due to the accounting of 5G FWA subscribers numbers earlier being erroneously reported under the wireline category but now being accounted for under the wireless category w.e.f January 2025.
The Overall wireline Tele-density in India decreased from 2.79% at the end of December 24 to 2.48% at the end of January 25. Urban and Rural Wireline Tele-density were 6.38% and 0.31%, respectively, during the same period. The share of urban and rural subscribers in total wireline subscribers was 92.03% and 7.97% respectively at the end of January 2025.
BSNL, MTNL, and APSFL, the three PSUs access service providers, held 24.77% of the wireline market share as on January 2025. Detailed statistics of the Wireline subscriber base are available at Annexure-I.
Access Service Provider-wise Market Share of wireline Subscribers
as on 31st January, 2025
Access Service Provider-wise Net Addition/Decline in wireline Subscribers during the month of January, 2025
Wireless (Mobile + 5G FWA) Subscribers
Total wireless subscribers increased from 1,150.66 million (Mobile) on December-24 to 1,157 million (mobile + 5G FWA) on January-25, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.55%. 5G FWA subscribers number, earlier being reported under the wireline category, has now been
