Telecommunications in India
| Communications in India | |
|---|---|
| Total revenue (2014–15) | ₹2.20 lakh crore (US$34 billion) |
| Telephony | |
| Total telephone subscribers | 1.205 billion (May 2017) |
| Mobile subscribers | 1.181 billion (May 2017) |
| Fixed line subscribers | 24.16 million (May 2017) |
| Monthly telephone additions (Net) | 6.09 million (May 2017) |
| Teledensity | 93.61% (May 2017) |
| Urban Teledensity | 172.28% (May 2017) |
| Rural Teledensity | 57.55% (May 2017) |
| Internet access | |
| Internet users | 462.12 million (January 2016) |
| Broadband subscribers | 291.61 million (May 2017) |
| Internet penetration | 34.8% (January 2016) |
| Share of World Internet Users | 13.5% (January 2016) |
| country code top-level domain | .in |
| Broadcasting | |
| Television channels | 882 (Jun. 2017) |
| Radio stations | 345 (March 2016) |
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone) with 1.053 billion subscribers as on 31 August 2016. It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by mega telecom operators and hyper-competition among them. India has the world's second-largest Internet user-base. As on 31 March 2016, there were 342.65 million internet subscribers in the country.
Major sectors of the Indian telecommunication industry are telephone, internet and television broadcast Industry in the country which is in an ongoing process of transforming into next generation network, employs an extensive system of modern network elements such as digital telephone exchanges, mobile switching centres, media gateways and signalling gateways at the core, interconnected by a wide variety of transmission systems using fibre-optics or Microwave radio relay networks. The access network, which connects the subscriber to the core, is highly diversified with different copper-pair, optic-fibre and wireless technologies. DTH, a relatively new broadcasting technology has attained significant popularity in the Television segment. The introduction of private FM has given a fillip to the radio broadcasting in India. Telecommunication in India has greatly been supported by the INSAT 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.
Indian telecom industry underwent a high pace of market liberalisation and growth since the 1990s and now has become the world's most competitive and one of the fastest growing telecom markets. The Industry has grown over twenty times in just ten years, from under 37 million subscribers in the year 2001 to over 846 million subscribers in the year 2011. India has the world's second-largest mobile phone user base with over 929.37 million users as of May 2012. It has the world's second-largest Internet user-base with over 300 million as of June 2015.
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