TRAI has revealed the data of top Internet service providers in India in the first quarter of 2013. BSNL continues to lead the Internet (broadband) service provider market with 60.74 percent share.
The state-run BSNL has 13.12 million Internet subscribers at the end of March 2013, TRAI said.
This telecom statistics does not include Internet accessed by mobile phones.
The second largest player — Reliance Communications has 2.49 million Internet users followed by MTNL with 1.96 million.
TRAI says the total number of internet subscribers including internet access by wireless phone subscribers at the end of March 2013 was 164.81 million. ( Top 5 fixed broadband service providers in India based on user base in July 2012 )
There were 21.61 million internet subscribers excluding those subscribers accessing internet
Through wireless phone, at the end of March 2013 as compared to 21.57 million at the end of
December 2012, registering a quarterly growth of 0.16 percent.
In the internet subscription (excluding internet access through wireless phone), share of broadband subscription is 69.65 percent and share of narrowband subscription is 30.35 percent at the end of March 2013.
TRAI says the number of broadband subscribers increased from 14.98 million at the end of December 2012 to 15.05 million at the end of March 2013, registering a quarterly growth of 0.45 percent and y-o-y growth of 8.98 percent.
Number of narrowband subscribers decreased from 6.59 million to 6.56 million.
