List of telecom companies in India

This is a list of mobile, DTH, ISP, wireless and wireline operators in India.

Wireless operators

As of 28 February 2022, there are 1141.53 million wireless subscribers including inactive users in India according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

Mobile operators

Market share of mobile telecom operators in India as of 28 February 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  Jio (35.28%)
  Airtel (31.37%)
  Vi (23.09%)
  BSNL (10.26%)
Operator LogoTechnologySubscribers[1] (millions)Active Users(millions)Ownership
1

Jio

 402.73[1] 378.62

Jio Platforms

2

Airtel
358.09[1] 351.21[1]

Bharti Airtel Limited

3

Vi

 263.57[1] 225.89[1]

Government of India (35.8%)
Vodafone Group (28.5%)
Aditya Birla Group (17.8%)
Private equity (17.9%)

4

BSNL
117.12[1] 60.37

Government of india

Defunct operators
Operator Started Operations Ceased Operations Fate
Telstra 1990 2000 Merged into Axiata Spice Communications[8]
Escotel 1996 2004 Merged into Idea Cellular[9]
Hutch Essar 1999 2007 Made by Vodafone Group and Essar Group
Axiata Spice Communications 1992 2008 Merged into Idea Cellular[10]
S Tel 2008 2012 Licence cancelled by the Supreme Court of India
Etisalat 2010[11] 2012 Licence cancelled by the Supreme Court of India[12]
BPL Mobile (Loop Mobile) 1995 2014 Ceased operations after expiration of licence[13]
Virgin Mobile India, T24 Mobile 2009[14] 2015 Merged into Tata Docomo [15]
Videocon Telecom 2010[16] 2016 Shut down following sale of spectrum to Bharti Airtel[17][18]
MTS India 2009 2017 Acquired by Reliance Communications[19]
Idea Cellular 2002 2018 Merged with Vodafone India to form Vi[20][21]
Vodafone India 2011 2018 Merged with Idea Cellular to form Vi[20][21]
Aircel 1999 2018 Bankrupt[22]
Telenor India 2009 2018 Acquired by Bharti Airtel[23]
Tata Docomo 2009 2019 Acquired by Bharti Airtel[24]
Reliance Communications 2004 2019 Bankrupt[25]
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 1986 2020 Subsidiary of BSNL until merger is complete[26][27]

Direct-to-home (DTH) operators

There are 4 pay DTH service providers and one free-to-air service provider (DD Free Dish) in India.[28]

As of 30 June 2021, there are 69.86 million active pay DTH subscribers, in addition to the subscribers of state-owned DD Free Dish, in the country according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[28] DD Free Dish has over 40 million subscribers.[29]

List of pay DTH service providers

Market share of pay DTH operators in India as of 30 June 2021 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

  Tata Play (33.37%)
  Airtel digital TV (25.76%)
  Dish TV & d2h (23.45%)
  Sun Direct (17.41%)
Rank Operator Logo Market Share Ownership
1 Tata Play
33.37%[28] Tata Sons (60%)
Walt Disney (30%)
Temasek (10%)[30]
2 Airtel digital TV 25.76%[28] Bharti Airtel (100%)
3

Dish TV & d2h
23.45%[28] Essel Group (55%)
Videocon (45%)
4 Sun Direct
17.41%[28] Sun Network (80%)
Astro Group (20%)
5 DD Free Dish Government of India
Notes
  • DD free dish is Free To air Service hence their subscriber data is not shown in TRAI performance report.[28]
  • On 22 March 2018, Dish TV merged with d2h, creating the then largest DTH provider in India.[31]

Wireline operators

Fixedline operators

As of 28 February 2022, there are 24.52 million wireline subscribers in India according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

Market share of FixedLine telecom operators in India as of 28 February 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  BSNL (30.90%)
  Airtel (24.00%)
  Jio (23.52%)
  MTNL (11.05%)
  Tata Teleservices (6.52%)
  Vi (2.28%)
  Quadrant (1.01%)
  RCom (0.72%)
OperatorSubscribers (millions)Ownership
1BSNL[32]7.58Department of Telecommunications
2Airtel5.88Bharti Airtel
3Jio5.76Jio Platforms
4 MTNL 2.70 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
5Tata Teleservices1.59Tata Group
6Vi0.55Government of India & Vodafone Idea Limited
7Quadrant0.24Quadrant Televentures Ltd.
8Reliance Communications0.17Reliance ADAG

Multiple-system operators (MSOs)
See also: List_of_cable_television_companies § India

As of 30 June 2021, there are 1731 MSOs (some also have an ISP license).[28]

List of top MSOs by subscribers

  • Siti Networks Ltd.
  • GTPL Hathway Ltd.
  • Hathway Digital Ltd.
  • Den Networks Ltd.
  • Thamizhaga Cable TV Communication Pvt Ltd.
  • Kerala Communicators Cable Ltd.
  • Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Ltd.
  • Fastway Transmissions Pvt Ltd.
  • KAL Cables Pvt. Ltd.
  • NXT Digital Ltd (HITS)
  • V K Digital Network Pvt. Ltd.
  • Asianet Digital Network Pvt. Ltd.
  • NXT Digital Ltd (Cable TV)

Internet service providers (ISPs)

There were 645 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband services; top 5 services constituted 98.50% market share of the total Broadband subscribers according to Trai.[1] These service providers were :

Market share of broadband services in India as of 28 February 2022 according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).[1]

  Jio (52.05%)
  Airtel (27.20%)
  Vi (15.57%)
  BSNL (3.41%)
  Atria Convergence (0.26%)
  Others (1.50%)
OperatorSubscribers (millions)Ownership
1Jio407.77Jio Platforms
2Airtel213.11Bharti Airtel
3Vi121.94Government of India Vodafone Idea Limited
4BSNL23.73Government of India
5Atria Convergence Technologies2.06Atria Convergence

The following table shows the top 5 wired broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 28 February 2022.

Rank Provider Subscribers

(millions)

 Ownership
1 Reliance Jio 5.04 Jio Platforms
3 BSNL 3.81 Government of India
2 Airtel 4.43 Bharti Airtel Limited
4 ACT Fibernet 2.06 Atria Convergence
5 Hathway 1.10 Reliance Industries Limited

The following table shows the top 5 wireless broadband service providers in India by total subscriber base as of 28 February 2022.

Rank Provider Subscribers

(millions)

 Ownership
1 Reliance Jio 402.73 Jio Platforms
2 Airtel 208.68 Bharti Airtel Limited
3 Vi[Note2 1][33][34] 121.93[Note2 1] Government of India Vodafone Idea Limited
4 BSNL[Note1 1][32] 22.92

[Note2 2][32]

 Government of India
5 Intech online private limited 0.21

Other notable ISPs
Provider Ownership
Alliance Broadband
APSFL Government of Andhra Pradesh
Asianet Broadband Rajan Raheja Group
DEN Networks Reliance Industries
Kerala Vision KCCL
Muft Internet Muft Internet
RailTel Corporation of India Government of India
Sify Sify Group
Spectranet Shyam Telecom Limited
Tata Communications Tata Group
Tata Play Tata Sons (60%)
Walt Disney Company (30%)
Temasek Holdings (10%)

For enterprise/wholesale only
Provider Ownership
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd CtrlS Labs Limited
ERNET Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
GAILTEL Government of India
National Knowledge Network
(for educational institutions only)		 Government of India
PowerGrid Government of India
Tulip Telecom Tulip Enterprises
Muft Internet Muft Internet
Notes
  1. On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy with NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other service providers due to closing down of most of the consumer services.[35][36]
  2. The services of Telenor India have been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.[37]
  3. On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular to form Vi.
  4. The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel from 1 July 2019.

Telecom R&D firms
NameHeadquartersType
Beetel Gurgaon private
C-DOT New Delhi Government Organization
EXICOM Gurgaon private
HTL Ltd. Chennai partially state-owned
HFCL New Delhi private
Nexge Technologies Chennai private
MYMO WirelessBangaloreprivate
Sasken TechnologiesBangaloreprivate
Tejas NetworksBangaloreprivate
United Telecoms LimitedBangaloreGovernment of India entreprise
Vihaan NetworksGurgaonprivate
WiSig NetworksHyderabadprivate
Sterlite TechnologiesPuneprivate

See also

Notes
  1. BSNL and MTNL merger approved by Government of India.

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  1. After adding subscribers of You Broadband Because it is subsidiary of Vi.
  2. After adding subscribers of MTNL to BSNL, because MTNL will merge with BSNL.
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