List of internet service providers in India

This is a list of internet service providers in India. There were 1076 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrowband internet services in India as of 30 June 2023.^[1]

By subscribers[edit | edit source]

Broadband is defined by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as "an always-on data connection ... that offers a minimum downlink and uplink speed of 2 Mbit/s".^[2] The number of internet users is 895.832 million, out of whom 34.36 million are narrowband subscribers and 861.472 million are broadband subscribers.^[1] The following table shows the top 5 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 30 June 2023.^{[The last two rows of the table need explanation.]}

Rank	ISP	Logo	Subscribers
Rank	ISP	Logo	Narrowband	Broadband	Total
1	Jio		N/A	428,200,000	428,200,000
2	Airtel		19,969,265	268,028,831	287,998,096
3	Vi		11,043,432	124,896,076	135,939,508
4	BSNL		2,882,539	24,588,532	27,471,071
5	Atria Convergence Technologies		N/A	2,159,293	2,159,293
6	Hathway		N/A	N/A	N/A
7	Excitel Broadband		N/A	N/A	N/A

Note:

On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy at NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other services due to closing down of most of the consumer services.^[3]^[4]
The services of Telenor India has been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.^[5]
On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular and renamed as Vodafone Idea Limited.^[6]

List[edit | edit source]


Service Provider	Internet Connection Type(s)	Region(s) Served
Atria Convergence Technologies	FTTH	N/A
BSNL Broadband	FTTH	India
DEN Networks	N/A	N/A
Excitel Broadband	FTTH	Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
MTNL Broadband	FTTH	Delhi, Mumbai
Hathway	FTTH	India
Tikona	N/A	N/A
Siti Networks

Other notable ISPs[edit | edit source]

ISP	Coverage area
RailTel Corporation of India	Public Sector (state-owned) ISP with pan-India optic fiber network along Railway track

Enterprise/wholesale only[edit | edit source]

National Knowledge Network for educational institutions in India
PowerGrid

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 5 December 2023.
↑ Sep 1, Debashis Sarkar (September 2021). "TRAI to government: Fix 2Mbps as the minimum broadband internet speed across India - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 February 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ Sengupta, Devina (28 February 2018). "Aircel, country's last small mobile phone operator, files for bankruptcy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
↑ "Aircel's bankruptcy note on Facebook".
↑ Gulveen Aulakh (15 May 2018). "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.
↑ Parbat, Kalyan (31 August 2018). "NCLT gives go-ahead to Idea-Vodafone merger". The Economic Times.

External links[edit | edit source]

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 5 December 2023.

[2] Sep 1, Debashis Sarkar (September 2021). "TRAI to government: Fix 2Mbps as the minimum broadband internet speed across India - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 February 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] Sengupta, Devina (28 February 2018). "Aircel, country's last small mobile phone operator, files for bankruptcy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

[4] "Aircel's bankruptcy note on Facebook".

[5] Gulveen Aulakh (15 May 2018). "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.

[6] Parbat, Kalyan (31 August 2018). "NCLT gives go-ahead to Idea-Vodafone merger". The Economic Times.

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