According to the latest report by telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India has 346.67 million active Mobile Internet Subscribers (GPRS/2G/3G/CDMA-Data) as on June 2011.
India has total 851.70 million wireless/mobile (GSM + CDMA) subscribers at the end of Jun-11 and 40.70% of total wireless subscribers base are capable of Accessing GPRS (2G/3G) Data Services/CDMA Internet at the end of June, 2011.
India’s largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel has maintained pole position among Indian mobile operators with 131.38 million active data subscribers (2G/3G). While National Telecom Backbone and state run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) comes in second with 69.27 million and Vodafone has 3rd position with 63.69 million mobile Internet subscribers.
Here are the mobile service operator-wise details :
India's Mobile Internet Subscriber Base (2G/3G/CDMA)
lalit April 14, 2012 at 11:10 am
BSNL is the best and cheap internet service provider. GPRS-2G has make video chatting also from laptop through mobile as modem.
muthu November 14, 2011 at 5:57 pm
BSNL is the bestd internet service provider (GPRS-2G&3G ,NIC/EVDO data cards,3G data cards,broadband,CDMA WLL internet,WIFI.)best ISP IN INDIA.
Nilanjan November 14, 2011 at 12:44 am
BSNL rocks
prashant kumar November 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm
i m using airtel internet since last 6 yrs and i can give u garente that airtel is the best
dinesh November 13, 2011 at 5:05 pm
I use Airtel 2g with good speed but bit costly compared to others .
Vikas Patidar November 13, 2011 at 9:17 am
As ratio of the gprs subscribers is not given here. Otherwise I guess BSNL and Vodafone also stands in the same line where does Airtel. No doubt Airtel is best in terms of data service, though it is costly. I’m using Airtel gprs for last 5 year’s and never experienced any issues regrading slow speeds compared to DOCOMO, Reliance in which speed becomes very low at peek times. But again everything depends upon your location as well as signal strength etc.
TANKA November 13, 2011 at 12:02 am
Airtel is best for 2g or 3g data service at Tezpur,Assam
sayan November 12, 2011 at 9:15 pm
bsnl rocks..
Sukhen November 12, 2011 at 2:44 pm
BSNL is best in mobile internet
Sandeep November 12, 2011 at 12:47 pm
I think this is figure who have internet compatible handset
pulkit gupta November 11, 2011 at 11:08 pm
airtel ka net aisa h, jaise free ka ho…
Abhijith November 11, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Good doing airtel ! ! !
kk November 11, 2011 at 8:05 pm
ALL wrong information by TRAI.
pkcool November 11, 2011 at 5:18 pm
they cant block it as i havent specified the details….
Jagannath November 11, 2011 at 2:39 pm
@pkcool +1 , mee toooo using 3G for free
Silsila November 11, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Hey, dont post the tricks over here.
The TelCos will read it and will definitely block it.
Mail it instead.
Man November 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm
@pkcool
how you do that with proxy either with some software or any other method , Thank
ravi shekhar November 11, 2011 at 12:14 pm
@pkcool Thanks for ur reply.I need some more help.
pkcool November 11, 2011 at 10:20 am
@ravi shekhar
use opera mini handler for mobile and use proxy for pc …simple….i am using 3g at high speeds free.
Arjun Chandrashekar November 11, 2011 at 5:53 am
@Amit.G
How Does AirTel Lead? Man I’m Viewing that Most Of The People Prefering Uninor/Idea/BSNL/Vodafone/Aircel/Reliance Due To The Worst Services Of AirTel. So This is Completely Wrong Info.
Agnivo November 11, 2011 at 2:40 am
Just read on google news that Airtel has communicated to TRAI that they will permanently deactivate any SIM on which there has been no activity (call/sms) for 60 days and recirculate the numbers after 3 months. This is due to shortage of numbering allocations and TRAI getting stringent on new allocations of blocks.
Expect the telecom industry to follow soon as there is a real need of a clean-up drive in this multi-SIM era where 30% SIMs remain inactive for months. Also, the ARPU will also improve for the operators.
Hope TT puts in a story on this…
mansoor November 11, 2011 at 1:08 am
unrealistic figure,if you compare with the actual figures of subscribers which is only 66% approx are active of overall Subscriber. How come all the active subscriber can be active on GPRS. Duck you TRAI its all Backed by Airtel and they have taken money from airtel. TRAI
mks November 11, 2011 at 12:56 am
+1
ravi shekhar November 10, 2011 at 11:33 pm
How do you hack airtel gprs/3G???????
S. A. Rahman November 10, 2011 at 11:02 pm
At the moment It’s Possible, but only in dreamland
Silsila November 10, 2011 at 10:53 pm
I think this is not the no. Of active subscribers.
This is just the no. Of subscribers who are just capable of using Internet in their mobile phones. As said in the article
“40.70% of total wireless
subscribers base ‘are capable’
of Accessing GPRS (2G/3G)
Data Services/CDMA Internet”
The word ‘capable’ makes this table right.
It doesnt mean they subscribes any pack.
Karan Gupta November 10, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I can’t believe it. 2-3 months back I read in a newspaper which was totally different from this figure. As I could remember, BSNL, TATA, & RELIANCE were performed well in comparison to others. But this story is totally opposite.
sAm November 10, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Total B A K W A A S report……….
Just compare d ratio of total no. of subscribers v/s GPRS subscribers(operatorwise),then evrythng wl b clear !!
Karan November 10, 2011 at 10:02 pm
BSNL GPRS is best…in speed..so use BSNL…
pkcool November 10, 2011 at 9:47 pm
I think airtel leads bcoz its gprs can be easily hacked lol.Most of them r using 3g/gprs free at 0 balance including me!
ajay November 10, 2011 at 9:46 pm
this data is super duper bakwas….
Eg; my family have 7to8gprs enabled mobile phones but only i and my younger bro do use net… My father and Maa never ever use net, even they dont bother its requirement on their high -fi nokia set…
Thus these figures are totally far from reality…
Rohan Singh November 10, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Well i am a BSNL 2G/3G net user ..
I think Airtel counted those customers whom they have deducted wrong fully for GPRS, though customer hasn’t used it.
sam shibu November 10, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Costliest service provider leads
max November 10, 2011 at 8:41 pm
now gprs plan averagely 98 rs per month and if each customer averagely spending 100 rs per month for calling and 30 per month for sms then arpu should be 250 rs averagely considering all vas caller tunes etc, why these company then not making profit
max November 10, 2011 at 8:38 pm
i think it should not be more than 10% to 15%
Amit.G November 10, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Data usage can be well measured in terms of revenue generated from data. Still i remember Uninor MD Once ie in september had said that uninor is getting 10% revenue from data.
Sanjay Bafna November 10, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Read footnotes at the end of data table it will clear-out all the things, Some operators including UNINOR said that its all active subscribers at the end of June’2011 are data enabled, meant GPRS subscribers.
Jagannath November 10, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Data is highly doubtful !!
debasish November 10, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Operator & Trai are in illusion…i think they came to this conclusion by counting all the gprs enabled handsets.
Uninor figure is out of the world….when its attached VLR figure is within 1.5 crore…how they can put this figure here i don’t know…
shuubhrajyoti November 10, 2011 at 7:37 pm
totally fake information…….lol
Arun November 10, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Unbelievable.Airtel hasn’t got even a single competitor in this segment.Don’t know why.I think something’s wrong in these figures.
Keshav Jha November 10, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Data is looking doubtful. I think TRAI’s source is not so genuine…
Amit.g November 10, 2011 at 6:45 pm
How come uninor will have 26 million DATA users when their total user base is 28million & in that active base is 50%!!! This is complete wrong info provided by TRAI.
saurabh gupta November 10, 2011 at 6:45 pm
data is miles away from reaility i dont know how it is prepared and many people who have GPRS enable phone dont use them its popular among youth and professionals and most important fact is uninor who reported 2.5 crore users just a little time and its showing its more then 2 crore 60 lakh users are using net means nearly 100% users HFCL which is present in just 1 or 2 circles is having more customers then TATA DOCOMO
TATA DOCOMO Videocon and airtel data of net users is just unrealistic is there anybody who can justify this data only loop MTNL data is looking near reality
ved November 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Wow Airtel being costly giving only 1 GB @ 98 per month then also rocks because Airtel is Airtel,Hats off to Airtel………….
Amit.G November 10, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Last month i read in news paper where Nokia head in his interview said that india has 46 million mobile internet users. But now Telecom regulatory has released this. Wtf man even industry leaders don know proper info!
Mamun November 10, 2011 at 5:47 pm
And airtel have around 17crore customer. Among them 13 crorce use internet! Is it believable?
Mamun November 10, 2011 at 5:45 pm
40.70%!!! I think it can’t be possible.
There are more than 20% users from villages who can’t do anything except listening mp3s and making and receiving calls. And even most of the educated old people don’t use internet.
I think more than 20% users have phone like nokia 1600/1100etc from which they can’t access internet.
Saurabh gupta November 10, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Tata docomo has just 1 million gprs not at all possible and videocon and stel figures are doubtful compared to their presence in the circles
TANMOY PAUL November 10, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Airtel rockssssssssssss….
bindesh November 10, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Dear sir @ Sanjay Bafna
please give me STATE wise report….