Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released latest telecom subscription data for the moth of July 2020. As per the latest report, Vodafone Idea lost 37.26 lakh customers while the state run telecom operator – BSNL – added 3.88 lakh new mobile subscribers even without 4G.
Apart from BSNL, other private operators shown positive trend in customer addition are – Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communication. Another state run PSU – MTNL – which is operating only in Delhi and Mumbai lost 5457 customers in the month of July 2020. The number of
broadband subscribers also increased during the same period with a monthly growth rate of 1.03%.
Total Telephone Subscribers in India
The number of telephone subscribers in
India increased from 1,160.52 million at
the end of June 2020 to 1,164 million at the
end of July 2020, thereby showing a
monthly growth rate of 0.30%. The overall Tele-density in India
increased from 85.85 at the end of
June 2020 to 86.03 at the end of June 2020.
Wireless Subscribers
Total wireless subscribers (2G, 3G & 4G)
increased from 1,140.71 million at the
end of June-20 to 1,144.18 million at
the end of July-20, thereby registering a
monthly growth rate of 0.30%. The Wireless Tele-density in India
increased from 84.38 at the end of June20 to 84.56 at the end of July-20.
As on 31st July, 2020, the private access service providers held 89.33%
market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two
PSU access service providers, had a market share of only 10.67%.
Net Additions/decline in Wireless Subscribers of Access Service
Providers in the month of July 2020
M/s Tata Teleservices Ltd. Virtual Network Operator (VNO) of BSNL has started reporting of its subscribers from the
month of October, 2018 and the same has been included in the subscriber base of BSNL.
except Mumbai, West Bengal,
U.P. (W), Karnataka, Bihar and
Haryana in their wireless
subscribers during the month of
July 2020. Kolkata service area
showed maximum growth of
2.03% in its wireless subscriber
base during the month of July 2020.
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Statistics
During the month of July 2020, a
total of 7.53 million requests were
received for MNP. The cumulative MNP
requests increased from 497.04
10
million at the end of Jun 2020 to
504.57 million at the end of
July 2020, since the implementation
of MNP.
Wireline Subscribers
from 19.81 million at the end of
June 2020 to 19.82 million at the
end of July 2020. Net addition in the
wireline subscriber base was 0.01
million with a monthly growth rate
of 0.05%. The Overall Wireline Tele-density
decreased from 1.47 at the end of
Jun 2020 to 1.46 at the end of
July 2020.
during the month of July, 2020
broadband subscribers increased
from 698.23 million at the end of
June 2020 to 705.40 million at the
end of July 2020 with a monthly
growth rate of 1.03%.
constituted 98.91% market share
of the total broadband subscribers
at the end of July 2020. These
service providers were
- Reliance Jio
Infocomm Ltd (401.96 million) - Bharti Airtel (155.74 million)
- Vodafone Idea (115.27 million)
- BSNL (23.03 million) and
- Atria
Convergence (1.69 million)
- BSNL (7.86 million)
- Bharti
Airtel (2.49 million) - Atria
Convergence Technologies (1.69
million) - Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
(1.16 million) and - Hathway Cable
& Datacom (1.01 million)
- Reliance Jio
Infocom Ltd (400.80 million) - Bharti Airtel (153.25 million)
- Vodafone Idea (115.26 million)
- BSNL (15.17 million) and
- Tikona
Infinet Ltd. (0.30 million)
1 Comment
The so called BSNL additions are non paying idle connections from Airtel & Idea