Phone subscribers rise to 1,197.75 million in February

The variety of phone subscribers in India elevated to 1,197.75 million on the finish of February, from 1,193.25 million January, thereby exhibiting a month-to-month progress charge of 0.38 per cent, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) stated on Monday.

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The regulator in its month-to-month report stated the wireline subscribers elevated to 33.10 million on the finish of February from 32.54 million in January, including that the online enhance within the wireline subscriber base was 0.56 million with a month-to-month charge of progress of 1.73 per cent. The share of city and rural subscribers in complete wireline subscribers have been 91.50 per cent and eight.50 per cent, respectively, on the finish of February.

Within the wi-fi section, subscribers rose to 1,164.64 million in February, which is a rise of 0.34 per cent as in contrast with 1,160.71 million within the earlier month. Wi-fi subscription in city areas elevated to 636.11 million on the finish of February as in opposition to 633.96 million in January. Wi-fi subscription in rural areas additionally rose to 528.53 million throughout the identical month in opposition to 526.75 million in January.

Bharti Airtel has the utmost proportion of 99.63 per cent of its energetic wi-fi subscribers (VLR) as in opposition to its complete wi-fi subscribers (HLR) on the date of peak VLR in February and MTNL has the minimal proportion of VLR 25.94 per cent of its HLR throughout the identical interval, TRAI stated.

As on February 29, the non-public entry service suppliers held 92.05 per cent market share of the wi-fi subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the 2 public sector models, had a market share of solely 7.95 per cent.

MNP requests

TRAI additionally stated that it obtained a complete of 11.54 million requests for cell quantity portability until the tip of February.

Within the broadband class, the overall subscribers elevated to 916.77 million on the finish of February from 911.03 million in January, a month-to-month progress charge of 0.63 per cent.

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High 5 service suppliers constituted 98.35 per cent market share of the overall broadband subscribers on the finish of February. The service suppliers embrace Reliance Jio Infocomm with 478.51 million subscribers, Airtel with 269.63 million, Vodafone Thought with 126.56 million, BSNL with 24.67 million and Atria Convergence with 2.24 million.