Broadband Subscribers Reach 15.05 Mn + Wireless 867.80 Mn

Broadband Subscribers in India reached 15.05 mn at the end of March-31-2013, as per the Data Released by Govt of India. State owned BSNL & MTNL together control over 65% of the DSL broadband Market in India.

The Top five Broadband Service Providers in terms of market share (based on subscriber base) are:
BSNL DataOne (9.93 million),
Airtel Broadband (1.40 million),
MTNL Tirband (1.08 million), [Serves only Mumbai & Delhi]
Hathway (0.37 million) and
You Broadband (0.31 million).

Wireless Subscriber base has reached a whopping 867.80 Mn after months of decline because of license cancellation and cleaning out low end multiple SIM users. While the Active Wireless Subscriber base is 723 Mn based on Visitor Location Registry. India has 525.30 Mn Urban Mobile Subscribers while Rural number stands at 342.50 Mn.

Mobile Number Portability reached 89.70 million at the end of March 2013 from 86.83 million subscribers at the end of February 2013.