Telecom Subscribers

Soon, a telecom sector ombudsman will address consumer grievances; amendments initiated in Trai Act

Telecom grievances mechanism till date has largely remained within control of service providers.

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

Digital-only media consumer growth in India to double to 4 million by 2020: Report

By 2020, India is expected to become the second largest online video viewing audience globally, given by the exponential growth of video consumption over digital media.

Aircel files for bankruptcy: Why consolidation is the way forward for telecom industry

What happened to Aircel was neither sudden nor unexpected; the rapid and unprecedented market consolidation is changing the workings of the telecom market like never before

Telecom user base goes up by half a percent to cross 121 cr in June

Out of 11 telecom operators, only five top mobile players -- Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone and Idea Cellular -- were able to add new customers.

India's telecom landscape: From subscriber base to teledensity captured in 6 charts

Tele-density in urban area stands at 172.28 and that in rural at 57.55. In other words, most urban residents possess more than one phone while nearly half of the rural population doesn't have a phone yet

Idea adds 7.43 million new subscribers in November as total reaches 10 million, says COAI

The GSM operators have added over 10 million users during November to reach 801.8 million subscribers base, with Idea Cellular leading the pack, according to data by cellular operators association COAI.

Top telecom companies add 3.5 mn subscribers to cross 776-mn mark in June

Total number of GSM subscribers as of June 2016 reached 776.97 million

New subscribers: Big three -Voda, Idea and Bharti- remain favourites

More than 3.5 million of the 4.7 million Indians who took a new mobile connection in October chose either Bharti, Vodafone or Idea. Does this mean these three incumbents are the most trusted mobile networks of the 13 service providers operating in India?

Number porting requests pile up as net mobile subscribers shrink

Almost a million subscribers were lost within a month in February when the total, all India wireless subscriber base fell from 862.62 million to 861.66 million though in percentage terms the decline was a mere 0.11%.