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List of internet service providers in India


This is a list of internet service providers in India.. There were 358 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrow band internet services in India as of 31 December 2019.[1]

By subscribersEdit

The following table shows the top 5 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 31 August 2021. Broadband is defined as "an always-on Internet connection with download speed of 512 kbit/s or above." The number of internet users are 1,209,583,417 out of which 1,186,724,191 are narrow band subscribers and 22,859,226 are broadband subscribers.[2]

Rank ISP Logo Wireline Subscribers Net Addition (Wireline Subscribers) Wireless Subscribers Net Addition (Wireless Subscribers) Total Subscribers Net Addition
1 Jio
 
 4,408,050 253,823 443,861,244 649,754 448,269,294 903,577
2 Airtel
 
 5,172,971 108,148 354,191,147 138,132 359,364,118 246,280
3 Vi 562,776 7870 271,068,132 -833,549 271,630,908 -825,629
4 BSNL 7,898,329 -90,851 114,270,216 -61,778 122,168,545 -152,629
5 MTNL 2,825,629 -22,784 3,274,210 -5,890 6,099,839 -28,674

Note:

  1. 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]
  2. The services of Telenor India has been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.[5]
  3. On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular and renamed as Vodafone Idea Limited.[6]

Other notable ISPsEdit

ISP Coverage area
RailTel Corporation of India State-owned ISP with pan-India optic fiber network along Railway track

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Enterprise/wholesale onlyEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators October — December, 2019" (PDF). TRAI. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators August 2021" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 31 August 2021.
  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. "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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