Trai Data On Subscriber Base Notes 0.72% Increase in Wired Broadband Customers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released its subscribers’ report for the quarter ending in March 2019. The sector regulator has compiled the data for these months, and it also gives us insight into the telecom industry, and how many subscribers have been added to the respective telecom operators or networks. The data has been divided across many verticals like the addition of wireless or wired broadband subscribers. The first thing to note is the addition of wired broadband subscribers, which denotes that the subscribers have increased by 0.72% to 18.42 million in March compared to 18.29 million in February.

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Top Five Telcos Dominating 98.67% of Broadband Market

The total broadband subscribers have increased by 2.37% to 563.31 million from 550.24 million, including both wired and wireless verticals. A total of 98.67% of the entire broadband market share was dominated by the top five service providers at the end of March. These companies included Reliance Jio Infocomm with 306.72 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 114.62 million subscribers, Vodafone Idea with 110.22 million subscribers, BSNL with 22.14 million subscribers and Tata Tele Group with 2.10 million subscribers.

In case of wired broadband services, the top service providers remained BSNL with 9.21 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 2.36 million subscribers, Atria Convergence Technologies with 1.42 million subscribers, Hathway Cable & Datacom with 0.81 million subscribers and MTNL with 0.76 million subscribers. The situation was a little different in case of wireless broadband services as the market was dominated by the companies which included Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd at the top with 306.72 million customers, Bharti Airtel with 112.26 million customers, Vodafone Idea with 110.20 million customers, BSNL with 12.93 million customers and Tata Teleservices with 1.68 million customers.