India, Dec. 31 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Particulars
Wireless*
Wireline
Total
Broadband Subscribers (Million)
958.54
45.11
1003.65
Urban Telephone Subscribers (Million)
650.22
41.94
692.16
Net Addition in November 2025 (Million)
2.39
0.16
2.55
Monthly Growth Rate
0.37%
0.38%
0.37%
Rural Telephone Subscribers (Million)
537.26
5.11
542.37
Net Addition in November 2025 (Million)
0.47
0.14
0.60
Monthly Growth Rate
0.09%
2.72%
0.11%
Total Telephone Subscribers (Million)
1187.48
47.05
1234.53
Net Addition in November 2025 (Million)
2.86
0.30
3.16
Monthly Growth Rate
0.24%
0.63%
0.26%
Overall Tele-density@(%)
83.46%
3.31%
86.77%
Urban Tele-density@(%)
127.19%
8.20%
135.39%
Rural Tele-density@(%)
58.94%
0.56%
59.50%
Share of Urban Subscribers
54.76%
89.14%
56.07%
Share of Rural Subscribers
45.24%
10.86%
43.93%
Segment
Subscription
Broadband Subscribers
Percentage Change
October 2025
November 2025
Wired subscribers
Fixed Wired Access
44.82
45.11
0.64%
Wireless Subscribers
Fixed Wireless Access
13.18
14.06
6.69%
Mobile Wireless Access
941.82
944.48
0.28%
Total Broadband Subscribers
999.81
1003.65
0.38%
S.N.
Service Provider
Subscriber base
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
510.52
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
314.26
Vodafone Idea Ltd.
127.75
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
33.85
Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd.
2.35
Market Share of Top Five Broadband (Wired & Wireless) Service Providers
98.51%
S.N.
Service Provider
Subscriber base
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
13.59
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
10.05
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
4.45
Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd.
2.35
Kerala Vision Broadband Ltd.
1.44
Market Share of Top Five Fixed (Wired) Access Broadband Service Providers
70.68%
S.N.
Service Provider
Subscriber base
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
496.92
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
304.21
Vodafone Idea Ltd.
127.74
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
29.4
IBus Virtual Network Services Private Limited
0.12
Market Share of Top Five Wireless (Fixed wireless & Mobile) Access Broadband Service providers
99.99%
Circle
Net additions in the month of November 2025
Telephone Subscriber base as on 30th November 2025
Wireline segment
Wireless* segment
Wireline segment
Wireless* segment
Circle A
117,762
1,622,368
20,068,870
396,121,176
Circle B
105,843
718,076
11,399,249
479,573,275
Circle C
45,445
304,595
3,465,299
197,760,639
Metro
26,790
215,273
12,116,774
114,026,119
All India
295,840
2,860,312
47,050,192
1,187,481,209
Circle Category
Monthly growth rate (%) (October 2025 to November 2025)
Yearly growth rate (%) (November 2024 to November 2025)
Wireline Segment
Wireless* Segment
Wireline Segment
Wireless* Segment
Circle A
0.59%
0.41%
35.22%
3.45%
Circle B
0.94%
0.15%
5.25%
3.15%
Circle C
1.33%
0.15%
6.06%
5.15%
Metro
0.22%
0.19%
26.72%
1.14%
All India
0.63%
0.24%
22.20%
3.38%
Service Area wise percentage of VLR Subscribers in the month of November 2025
Licensed Service Area Wise MNP Status (in million)
Zone-I
Zone-II
Service Area
Number of Porting Requests in
Service Area
Number of Porting Requests in
October-25
November-25
October-25
November-25
Delhi
0.66
0.66
Andhra Pradesh
0.69
0.68
Gujarat
0.98
1.00
Assam
0.12
0.12
Haryana
0.43
0.41
Bihar
1.27
1.33
Himachal Pradesh
0.05
0.06
Karnataka
0.62
0.61
Jammu & Kashmir
0.06
0.07
Kerala
0.26
0.26
Maharashtra
1.08
1.06
Kolkata
0.19
0.19
Mumbai
0.27
0.25
Madhya Pradesh
1.40
1.40
Punjab
0.38
0.35
North East
0.03
0.03
Rajasthan
0.78
0.78
Odisha
0.25
0.25
U.P.(East)
2.24
1.97
Tamil Nadu
0.57
0.62
U.P.(West)
1.47
1.35
West Bengal
1.24
1.26
Total
8.40
7.94
Total
6.65
6.74
Total (Zone-I + Zone-II)
15.05
14.69
Contact details incase of any clarification: -
1
Total IMSI's in HLR (A)
2
Less: (B a + b + c + d + e)
a.
Test/Service Cards
b.
Employees
c.
Stock in hand/in Distribution Channels (Active Card)
d.
Subscriber Retention period expired
e.
Service suspended pending disconnection
3
Subscribers Base (A-B)
5G-Fixed Wireless Subscribers
TSPs Name →
Bharti Airtel
Reliance Jio
Grand Total
↓Telecom Service Area
Oct-25
Nov-25
Oct-25
Nov-25
Oct-25
Nov-25
Andhra Pradesh
235,361
257,548
628,014
649,908
863,375
907,456
Assam
48,338
53,944
170,246
178,168
218,584
232,112
Bihar
107,879
123,880
595,045
621,699
702,924
745,579
Delhi
128,273
137,554
229,637
229,289
357,910
366,843
Gujarat
142,042
155,969
411,200
422,040
553,242
578,009
Haryana
68,274
74,090
211,262
216,664
279,536
290,754
Himachal Pradesh
11,834
13,104
69,786
72,734
81,620
85,838
Jammu & Kashmir
42,175
46,975
162,516
167,716
204,691
214,691
Karnataka
221,813
242,390
385,631
393,430
607,444
635,820
Kerala
47,624
52,925
158,936
167,426
206,560
220,351
Kolkata
75,003
80,459
158,927
159,893
233,930
240,352
Madhya Pradesh
107,595
119,531
500,184
518,163
607,779
637,694
Maharashtra
217,618
238,637
572,801
590,209
790,419
828,846
Mumbai
85,839
92,678
100,625
102,937
186,464
195,615
North East
26,453
29,534
80,032
82,420
106,485
111,954
Odisha
56,595
62,951
259,012
273,291
315,607
336,242
Punjab
117,678
128,737
454,094
466,746
571,772
595,483
Rajasthan
148,985
163,034
417,140
432,040
566,125
595,074
Tamil Nadu
305,779
336,051
347,520
355,938
653,299
691,989
Uttar Pradesh (East)
142,066
157,801
614,919
638,577
756,985
796,378
Uttar Pradesh (West)
112,806
124,512
479,234
494,597
592,040
619,109
West Bengal
64,758
73,579
389,107
412,257
453,865
485,836
TOTAL
2,514,788
2,765,883
7,395,868
7,646,142
9,910,656
10,412,025
Net Addition
251,095
250,274
501,369
Monthly Growth %
9.98%
3.38%
5.06%
UBR- Fixed Wireless Subscribers
TSPs Name →
Reliance Jio*
↓Telecom Service Area
Oct-25
Nov-25
Andhra Pradesh
222,266
253,677
Assam
23,244
26,064
Bihar
189,771
214,052
Delhi
194,571
218,156
Gujarat
197,488
221,105
Haryana
130,192
145,809
Himachal Pradesh
7,007
8,012
Jammu & Kashmir
54,076
61,571
Karnataka
169,096
191,937
Kerala
7,657
8,290
Kolkata
120,661
136,949
Madhya Pradesh
161,513
183,781
Maharashtra
233,554
263,210
Mumbai
43,040
47,006
North East
9,932
11,158
Odisha
36,246
41,164
Punjab
173,244
192,084
Rajasthan
203,819
227,735
Tamil Nadu
125,358
138,298
Uttar Pradesh (East)
199,506
221,955
Uttar Pradesh (West)
246,608
277,550
West Bengal
86,657
97,700
TOTAL
2,835,506
3,187,263
Net Addition
351,757
Monthly Growth %
12.41%
(Wireless+
(in million)
(DSL, FTTx, Ethernet/LAN, Cable Modem, ILL)
(5G FWA, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Radio/UBR, Satellite)
(3G, 4G, 5G)
(In million)
(In million)
(In million)
Category
Percentage of VLR Subscribers for the Top Four Access Service Providers in the month of November 2025
the month of
the month of
Shri Akhilesh Kumar Trivedi, Advisor (NSL-II),
Wireline)
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
World Trade Centre, Tower-F,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nauroji Nagar, New Delhi - 110029
Note:
Ph: 011-20907758 (S. B. Singh)
* Wireless includes Fixed Wireless Access [FWA] subscription also.
E-mail: advmn@trai.gov.in Pr. Advisor (NSL), TRAI
@ In this press release, Tele-density as on 30th November 2025 has been computed based on the projection of population from the 'Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011 - 2036', published in July 2020. Previous months' 'Telecom Subscription Data' was published based on the projection of population from the 'Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011 - 2036', published in November 2019.
# VLR is acronym of Visitor Location Register. The dates of peak VLR for various Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) may be different in different service areas.
Note: Peak VLR figures in some LSAs of some of the service providers are more than their HLR figures due to a large number of inroamers.
Segment-wise Broadband Subscribers and Monthly Growth Rate in the month of November 2025
Top five Broadband (Wired & Wireless) Service providers as on 30st November
Annexure IV
2025
VLR Subscribers in the Wireless Segment
Home Location Register (HLR) is a central database that contains details of each mobile phone subscriber that is authorized to use the GSM core network. The HLRs store details of every SIM card issued by the service provider. Each SIM has a unique identifier called an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), which is the primary key to each HLR record. The HLR data is stored for as long as a subscriber remains with the service provider. HLR also manages the mobility of subscribers by means of updating their position in administrative areas. It sends the subscriber data to a Visitor Location Register (VLR).
Subscriber numbers reported by the service providers is the difference between the numbers of IMSI registered in service provider's HLR and sum of other figures as given below: -
Service Provider-wise Market Share of Broadband (Wired & Wireless) Services as on 30th November 2025
Visitor Location Register (VLR) is a temporary database of the subscribers who have roamed into the particular area, which it serves. Each base station in the network is served by exactly one VLR; hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one VLR at a time.
If subscriber is in active stage i.e. he is able to send/receive calls/SMSs he is available both in HLR and VLR. However, it may be possible that the subscriber is registered in HLR but not in VLR due to the reason that he is either switched-off or moved out of coverage area, not reachable etc. In such circumstances he will be available in HLR but not in VLR. This causes difference between subscriber number reported by the service providers based on HLR and numbers available in VLR.
The VLR subscriber data calculated here is based on active subscribers in VLR on the date of Peak subscriber number in VLR of the particular month for which the data is being collected. This data is to be taken from the switches having the purge time of not more than 72 hours.
Top Five Fixed Wired Access Broadband Service providers as on 30th November 2025
Fixed-Wireless (5G) Subscribers Base
Annexure-V
Top five Wireless (Fixed wireless & mobile) Access Broadband Service
providers as on 30th November 2025
Annexure-VI
Fixed-Wireless (UBR) Subscribers Base
Access Service Provider-wise Market Share of Wireline Subscribers as on 30th November 2025
*Only Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited has reported the information on the number of UBR FWA subscribers
Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.
