India, Oct. 6 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
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* Wireless includes fixed wireless access (FWA) subscription also.
@ Based on the projection of population from the 'Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011 - 2036'.
# VLR is acronym of Visitor Location Register. The dates of peak VLR for various telecom service providers (TSPs) are different in different service areas.
Information in this Press Release is based on the data provided by the TSPs to TRAI.
Segment-wise Broadband Subscribers and Monthly Growth Rate in the month of August 2025
[1] Variation in FWA broadband is due to the separate reporting of Fixed Wireless (Unlicensed bands), earlier included under FTTx by M/s Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited.
Top five Broadband (Wired + Wireless) Service providers as on 31st August 2025
Service Provider-wise Market Share of Broadband (Wired + Wireless) Services as on 31st August 2025
Top Five Fixed (Wired) Access Broadband Service providers as on 31st August 2025
Top five Wireless (Fixed Wireless & Mobile) Access
Broadband Service providers as on 31st August 2025
Annexure-I.
Access Service Provider-wise Market Share of wireline Subscribers as on 31st August 2025
Access Service Provider-wise Net Addition/Decline in Wireline Subscribers during the month of August 2025
(A) Wireless (mobile) subscribers
The detailed statistics of wireless (mobile) subscriber base is available at Annexure-II.
* As on 31st August 2025 the private access service providers held a market share of 92.11% of the wireless (mobile) subscribers, whereas PSU access service providers viz. BSNL and MTNL together held a market share of 7.89%.
Access Service Provider-wise Market Shares in term of Wireless (Mobile) Subscribers as on 31st August 2025
Net Addition/ Decline in Wireless (Mobile) Subscribers of Access Service Providers in the month of August 2025 Growth in Wireless (Mobile) Subscribers
Major Access Service Provider-wise Monthly Growth/ Decline Rate of Wireless (Mobile) Subscribers in the month of August 2025
Service Area-wise Monthly Growth/ Decline Rate of Wireless (Mobile) Subscribers in the month of August 2025
(B) Wireless (FWA) subscribers
The Number of M2M cellular mobile connections increased from 84.62 million at the end of July 2025 to 89.70 million at the end of August 2025.
Bharti Airtel Limited has the highest number of M2M cellular mobile connections of 52.61 million with a market share of 58.66%, followed by Vodafone Idea Limited, Reliance Jio Infocom Limited and BSNL with market share of 19.40%, 17.94% and 4.01% respectively.
Overall Tele-density (LSA Wise) - As on 31st August 2025
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Circle Category-wise Net Additions in Telephone Subscribersin the month of August 2025
*Wireless includes FWA subscription also.
Circle Category-wise monthly and yearly Growth Rates in Telephone Subscribers in the month of August 2025
*Wireless includes FWA subscription also.
Note: Circle Category-Metro includes Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Annexure IV
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: -
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.
Annexure-VI
UBR FWA Subscriber Base
* Only Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited has reported the information on the number of UBR FWA subscribers.
Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.
