List of internet service providers in India

This is a list of internet service providers in India. There were 358 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrow band internet services in India as of 31 December 2019.[1]

By subscribers

The following table shows the top 10 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 31 December 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 718.74 million, out of which 56.80 million are narrow band subscribers and 661.93 million are broadband subscribers.[2]

Rank ISP Narrowband Broadband Total
1 Jio 0 370,872,755 370,872,755
2 Airtel 26,632,137 140,395,168 167,027,305
3 Vodafone Idea 23,614,475 118,453,704 142,068,179
4 BSNL 6,299,248 23,963,441 30,262,689
5 ACT Fibernet 0 1,518,853 1,518,853
6 MTNL 201,088 891,113 1,092,201
7 Hathway 0 898,834 898,834
8 You broadband 14,675 770,609 785,284
9 GTPL Broadband Pvt. Ltd. 0 325,927 325,927
10 Excitel Broadband Pvt. Ltd. 0 319,323 319,323

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 October — December, 2019" (PDF). TRAI. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators October – December, 2019" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 6 June 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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