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Telecommunications in India
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| Communications in India | |
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| Gross adjusted revenue (2023) | ₹229,071 crore (US$27 billion)[1] |
| Telephony | |
| Total subscribers | 1,190.66 million (Sept 2024)[2] |
| Wireless subscribers | 1,153.72 million (September 2024)[2] |
| Fixed line subscribers | 36.93 million (September 2024)[2] |
| Monthly telephone additions (Net) | -14,20,000 (Sep 2023)[2] |
| Teledensity | 84.69% (Sep 2023)[2] |
| Urban Teledensity | 131.86% (Sept 2024)[2] |
| Rural Teledensity | 58.48% (Sept 2024)[2] |
| Urban subscriber | 662.15 Million (Sept 2024)[2] |
| Rural subscriber | 528.51 Million (Sep 2023)[2] |
| Broadband subscriber | 949.21 million (Aug 2024)[2] |
| Broadband subscribers (Wireless) | 905.46 million (Aug 2024)[2] |
| Broadband subscribers (Wireline) | 43.75 million (Aug 2024)[2] |
| country code top-level domain | .in |
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users[3] (both fixed and mobile phones) with over 1.19 billion subscribers as of September 2024.[4] It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by multiple large-scale telecom operators and the ensuant hyper-competition between them. India has the world's second largest Internet user-base with over 949.21 million broadband internet subscribers as of September 2024.[4]
Major sectors of the Indian telecommunication industry are the telephone, internet and television broadcast industries in the country which are involved in an ongoing process of developing into a next-generation network, increasingly employing an extensive array of modern network infrastructure such as digital telephone exchanges, network switching subsystems, media gateways and signaling gateways at the core, interconnected by a wide variety of transmission systems using optical fiber or microwave radio relay networks. The access network, which connects the subscriber to the core, is highly diversified with different copper-pair, optical fiber and wireless technologies. Satellite television, a relatively new broadcasting technology has attained significant popularity in the Television segment. The introduction of private FM has boosted radio broadcasting in India. Telecommunication in India has been greatly supported by the Indian National Satellite System system of the country, one of the largest domestic satellite systems in the world. India possesses a diversified communications system, which links all parts of the country by telephone, Internet, radio, television and satellite.[5]
The Indian telecom industry underwent a high rate of market liberalisation and growth since the 1990s and has now become the world's most competitive and one of the fastest growing telecom markets.[6][7]
Telecommunication has supported the socioeconomic development of India and has played a significant role in narrowing down the rural-urban digital divide to an extent. It has also helped to increase the transparency of governance with the introduction of e-governance in India. The government has pragmatically used modern telecommunication facilities to deliver mass education programmes for rural communities in India.[8]
According to the London-based telecom trade body GSMA, the telecom sector accounted for 6.5% of India's GDP in 2015, or about ₹9 lakh crore (US$110 billion), and supported direct employment for 2.2 million people in the country. GSMA estimates that the Indian telecom sector will contribute ₹14.5 lakh crore (US$170 billion) to the economy and support 3 million direct jobs and 2 million indirect jobs by 2020.[9]
In today's period of progress and wealth, technological modernization is increasingly seen as a foreseen necessity for every country. With better technology and more competition from established businesses, telecommunications has entered a new era of development. The continuous rise of the mobile industry is linked to technological advancements in the telecommunications sector. The service providers' primary goal is to build a loyal customer base by measuring their performance and maintaining existing consumers in order to profit from their loyalty. The purpose of the paper is to address these concerns.[10]
- ^ The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators October – December, 2019 Archived 8 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine trai.gov.in Retrieved 8 August 2023
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Telecom Subscription Data as on 31 December 2023" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 31 October 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Anand, Saurav (16 November 2022). "India has over 1.19 bn mobile phone users: I&B ministry". mint. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 31st December, 2023" (PDF). TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA.
- ^ "Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 31 May 2012" (PDF). TRAI. 4 July 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ Dharmakumar, Rohin (19 October 2011). "India Telcos: Battle of the Titans". Forbes. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ Kannan, Shilpa (7 April 2010). "India's 3G licence bidders bank on big changes". BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ Raju Thomas G. C. (2006). Stanley Wolpert (ed.). Encyclopedia of India (vol. 3). Thomson Gale. pp. 105–107. ISBN 0-684-31352-9.
- ^ "Telecom sector to contribute Rs 1.45 lakh crore to the public fund by 2020 - ET Telecom". ETTelecom.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ Mitra Debnath, Roma; Shankar, Ravi (1 January 2008). "Benchmarking telecommunication service in India: An application of data envelopment analysis". Benchmarking. 15 (5): 584–598. doi:10.1108/14635770810903169. ISSN 1463-5771.
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