STATISTICS ON TELECOM SUBSCRIPTION AS ON 28.02.2014

[Mr. M. GOVINDARAJAN]

Communication, especially Telecommunications, becomes a part and parcel of business and also of everybody’s life. A business, without the facilities of telecommunications is not imaginable.  The era of revolution in Telecom in India began almost during the year 1986. The introduction of public call office concept made a revolution among the public which is the root cause the utilization of telecom services by the public. The liberalization of economic policy ushered the vehement growth of Telecom technology.  In this article the statistics on telecom subscription in mobile, landline and broadband as on 28.02.2014 is furnished.

The growth of telecom industry is very high.   The mobile phone penetrates in the rural to the greater extent.   The following table shows the total subscribers of wire less and wire less for urban and rural areas as on 28.02.2014:

Total Subscribers as on 28.02.2014

                                                                                (in million)

Particulars	Wireless	Wireline	Total
Urban subscribers	534.40	22.59	556.99
Rural subscribers	368.96	6.01	374.96
Total subscribers	903.36	28.59	931.95

The increase in the mobile number availability in rural areas increases the tele-density in rural areas.   The following table shows the tele density in respect of mobile phones and wireline phones for urban and rural areas:

Tele-density as on 28.02.2014                                                              

Particulars	Wireless	Wireline	Total
Urban Tele-density	140.53	5.94	146.47
Rural Tele-density	42.97	0.70	43.67
Overall Tele-density	72.92	2.31	75.23

The following table shows the overall tele-density of states in India as on 28.02.2014:

Overall Tele-density state-wise as on 28.02.2014

Name of the State	Overall Tele-density
Delhi	227.86
Tamil Nadu	111.15
Punjab	107.29
Himachal Pradesh	105.62
Kerala	97.99
Karnataka	93.37
Maharastra	91.04
Gujarat	90.89
Haryana	80.82
Andhra Pradesh	79.52
Rajasthan	74.72
North East	70.00
West Bengal	69.45
Jammu & Kashmir	65.74
Odisha	61.76
UP (E)	56.96
Madhya Pradesh	56.42
Assam	48.90
Bihar	45.70
All India	75.23

Mobile

One of the reasons for increase in the subscriber of mobile phone is the cheapest tariff.   The following table furnish the connections provided by the service providers and their market share in mobile market:

Market share of service providers in Mobile as on 28.02.2014

Name of Service Provider	No. of connections	Market share in %
Bharti	203495933	22.53
Vodafone	164344170	18.19
Idea	133550428	14.78
Reliance	117875020	13.05
BSNL	94834936	10.50
Aircel	69147005	7.65
Tata	63147468	6.99
Telewings	34887258	3.86
Sistema	8796991	0.79
Videocon	4666892	0.52
MTNL	3507250	0.39
Loop	2936575	0.33
Quadrant	2170557	0.24
TOTAL	903360483	100

The following table shows the mobile subscribers statewise as on 28.02.2014. 

Mobile Subscribers state-wise as on28.02.2014

Name of State	No. of mobile subscribers
Andhra Pradesh	67093399
Assam	15311438
Bihar	60996723
Delhi	42683573
Gujarat	54696248
Haryana	21055449
Himachal Pradesh	7114857
J & K	7801487
Karnataka	54831036
Kerala	31725411
Kolkata	20971610
Madhya Pradesh	55801259
Maharashtra	72189212
Mumbai	30873732
North East	9404122
Orissa	25461231
Punjab	31187011
Rajasthan	52096132
Tamil Nadu (incl. Chennai)	75125760
U.P.(E)	76489958
U.P. (W)	48367789
West Bengal	42083046
TOTAL	903360483

Mobile Number Portability

Mobile Number Portability requests of subscribers, at the end at the end of February, 2014 are 114.41 million to different service providers for porting their mobile number. India, for this purpose is bifurcated into Zone 1 and Zone 2.  The break up of the same zone wise is furnished in the following table:

Service Area wise MNP status as on 28.02.2014

Zone 1		Zone 2
Service Area	No. of Porting requests	Service Area	No. of Porting requests
Delhi	4267806	Andhra Pradesh	10525744
Gujarat	9854274	Assam	404669
Himachal Pradesh	396731	Bihar	2654255
Harayana	4282907	Karnataka	13090569
Jammu & Kashmir	21243	Kerala	4439983
Maharastra	9053384	Kolkata	2524914
Mumbai	4791038	Madhya Pradesh	6507837
Punjab	3916019	North East	199113
Rajasthan	11532670	Orissa	2421054
Uttar Pradesh - East	6348030	Tamil Nadu	6724984
Uttar Pradesh – West	6197356	West Bengal	4254188
TOTAL	60,661,458	TOTAL	53,747,310
	TOTAL		114,408,768

Wireline

In the earlier period there is heavy demand for wire line phones.   On the introduction of mobile phones the connections of wire line falls deeply.  The following table shows the number of connections retained by the service providers and their market share in the wireline market as on 28.02.2014 is furnished:

Market share of service providers in wired lines as on 28.02.2014

Name of Service Provider	No. of connections	Market share in %
BSNL	18614545	65.10
MTNL	3534275	12.36
Bharti	3355129	11.73
Tata	1239245	5.35
Reliance	1529629	4.33
Quadrant	210702	0.74
Vodafone	545454	0.19
Sistema	54244	0.19
TOTAL	28592309	100

Broadband

Total Broadband (> 512 Kbps) subscription is 58.00 million at the end of February, 2014. Out of which, wired broadband subscription is 14.80 million and wireless broadband subscription is 43.20 million.

Market share of service providers in Broadband (wired+wireless) as on 28.02.2014

Name of Service Provider	Market share in %
BSNL	28.22
Bharti	20.68
Reliance	12.24
Idea	11.20
Vodafone	10.58
Others	17.08
TOTAL	100

Target

The 12^th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) has fixed the following targets for telecom Industry:

• Provision of 1200 million connections by 2017;
• Mobile access to all villages and increase rural density to 70% by 2017;
• Broadband connection of 175 million by 2017.

Reference:

www.trai.gov.in