TRAI Report Card January 2015: BSNL Leads In Wired Broadband Services With 9.98 Million Subscribers

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the latest telecom subscription data as on 31st January 2015. As per this report, the number of broadband subscribers increased from 85.74 Million at the end of December 2014 to 94.49 million at the end of January 2015 with monthly growth rate of 10.21%.

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BSNL maintained the No.1 postion in the Wired Broadband segment with a market share of 62.53%. In wireless broadband segment, Bharati Airtel holds the No.1 position with 18.87 million customers.

The total number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 970.97 million at the end of December 2014 to 979.21 million at the end of January 2015, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.85%.

Total wireless subscriber base increased from 943.97 million at the end of December 2014 to 952.34 million at the end of January 2015, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.89%.

As on 31st January, 2015, the private access service providers held 91.22% market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two PSUs access service providers, held only 8.78% market share.

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Top five service providers constituted 83.41% market share of total broadband subscribers at the end of Jan-15. These service providers were Bharti Airtel (20.29 million), BSNL (19.07 million), Vodafone (17.86 million), Idea Cellular Ltd (14.12 million) and Reliance Communications Group (7.47 million).