List of internet service providers in India

This is a list of internet service providers in India. There were 1031 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrowband internet services in India as of 31 March 2023.[1]

By subscribers

Broadband is defined by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as "an always-on data connection ... that offers a minimum downlink and uplink speed of 2 Mbps".[2] The number of internet users are 834,288,767 out of which 39,407,323 are narrow band subscribers and 794,881,444 are broadband subscribers.[3] The following table shows the top 4 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 30 September 2021.

Rank ISP Logo Narrowband Subscribers Broadband Subscribers Total Subscribers
1 Jio
— 428,778,364 428,778,364
2 Airtel
21,970,670 207,297,100 229,267,770
3 Vi
14,358,349 122,366,711 136,725,060
4 BSNL
2,913,382 24,152,989 27,066,371
5 Ishan Technologies — 75,000 75,000


Note:

  1. On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy at NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other services due to closing down of most of the consumer services.[4][5]
  2. The services of Telenor India has been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.[6]
  3. On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular and renamed as Vodafone Idea Limited.[7]

Other notable ISPs

ISP Coverage area
RailTel Corporation of India State-owned ISP with pan-India optic fiber network along Railway track

Enterprise/wholesale only

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators January – March 2023" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 21 August 2023.
  2. ^ Sep 1, Debashis Sarkar. "TRAI to government: Fix 2Mbps as the minimum broadband internet speed across India - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 February 2022.{cite web}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators September 2021" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 10 January 2022.
  4. ^ Sengupta, Devina (28 February 2018). "Aircel, country's last small mobile phone operator, files for bankruptcy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Aircel's bankruptcy note on Facebook".
  6. ^ Gulveen Aulakh. "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.
  7. ^ Parbat, Kalyan (31 August 2018). "NCLT gives go-ahead to Idea-Vodafone merger". The Economic Times.

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