List of internet service providers in India

This is a list of internet service providers in India. There were 307 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrow band internet services in India as of 30 June 2019.[1]

By subscribers

The following table shows the top 10 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 30 September 2019. Broadband is defined as "an always-on Internet connection with download speed of 512 kbit/s or above." The number of internet users are 687.62 million, out of which 62.20 million are narrow band subscribers and 625.42 million are broadband subscribers.[2]

Rank ISP Narrowband Broadband Total
1 Jio 0 355,926,488 355,926,488
2 Airtel 27,054,156 127,826,269 154,880,425
3 Vodafone Idea 28,152,771 112,189,428 140,342,199
4 BSNL 6,693,536 21,523,113 28,216,649
5 ACT Fibernet 0 1,479,233 1,479,233
6 MTNL 239,770 924,670 1,164,440
7 Hathway 0 861,946 861,946
8 You broadband 14,732 758,865 773,597
9 GTPL Broadband Pvt. Ltd. 0 301,750 301,750
10 Excitel Broadband Pvt. Ltd. 0 294,000 294,000

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.[3][4]
  2. The services of Telenor India has been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.[5]
  3. On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular and renamed as Vodafone Idea Limited.[6]

Other notable ISPs
ISP Coverage area
APSFL Andhra Pradesh
RailTel Corporation of India State-owned ISP with pan-India optic fiber network along Railway track
Tikona Infinet Limited
TICFIBER - Thamizhaga Internet Communications Pvt Ltd Tamil Nadu

Enterprise/wholesale only

See also

References
  1. "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators April — June, 2019" (PDF). TRAI. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators July – September, 2019" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 8 January 2020.
  3. Sengupta, Devina (28 February 2018). "Aircel, country's last small mobile phone operator, files for bankruptcy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. "Aircel's bankruptcy note on Facebook".
  5. Gulveen Aulakh. "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.
  6. Parbat, Kalyan (31 August 2018). "NCLT gives go-ahead to Idea-Vodafone merger". The Economic Times.
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