Mobile Subscribers

India's mobile subscriber base to touch 1.42 billion by 2024; 80% of users to have 4G connections: Report

Globally, 5G services are expected to reach more than 40 percent global population coverage and 1.5 billion subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2024.

Telecom operators seek time till 20 November to roll out new subscriber registration, verification process

The government on 26 October ordered telecom companies to stop using Aadhaar for electronic verification of existing mobile phone customers as well as for issuing new connections to comply with a recent Supreme Court order.

Reliance Jio becomes second-largest player in terms of mobile subscriber market share on a standalone basis

India Ratings said, in July 2018, Reliance Jio added 11.8 million mobile subscribers, led by the relaunch of RJio’s 4G feature phone, while other telcos reported flat subscriber growth.

Telecom subscriber base dips to 117.5 cr in January; Reliance Jio adds 83 lakh customers: Trai

India's telecom subscriber base dipped to 117.5 crore at the end of January with smaller operators losing bulk of their customers, as per monthly Trai report

Are you still being asked to link your phone to Aadhaar? Pre-recorded messages to continue till DoT asks operators to drop them

Supreme Court extends deadline for Aadhaar linkage to mobile numbers indefinitely.

Mobile subscriber base in India increases by 5.68 million to reach 895.25 million in March 2017

The mobile subscriber base of seven telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, increased by 5.68 million in March to reach 895.25 million, according to industry data.

Re-verification of old mobile subscribers will cost Rs 2,500 crores: COAI

In a letter to the Telecom Department, COAI has estimated the cost of re-verification of old mobile subscribers at about Rs 2,500 crores.

Enterprise Customers To Drive 3G Adoption In India

3G subscribers are expected to constitute more than one third of the total wireless users in the next five years.

India to have 1bn unique mobile subscribers by 2020, says GSMA report

India will have almost one billion unique mobile subscribers by 2020 and already now is the worlds second largest smartphone market, overtaking the US in first half of 2016 with an installed base of 275 million devices, a GSMA study revealed on Wednesday.

According to a report Mobile data traffic in India to grow 15 times by 2021

The mobile data traffic in India will grow 15 times by 2021 at a time when Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by 2018 globally, a new report said on Wednesday.