Research & Numbers

The total revenue of Internet Service Providers as reported by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the quarter ending December 2012, was Rs 2978.85 crores, down by 0.53% ... Continue_Reading
The Cellular Operators Association of India (which includes most of India’s GSM telecom operators), has reported an addition of 3.50 million GSM connections in April 2013, closing in at 664.4 million subscribers, ... Continue_Reading
A total of 7.33 million Prepaid Payment Instrument  (PPI) transactions worth Rs 4.73 billion were generated, as of February 2013, according to the latest numbers from the Reserve Bank of ... Continue_Reading
Around 2.8% of the Internet connections in India have more than 4Mbps speed and around 0.2% of the Internet connections have more than 10 Mbps speed for the fourth quarter ... Continue_Reading
25.66 Lakh subscribers submitted number porting requests in the month of February 2013, according to the Indian Telecom regulator TRAI. This is a 38.95% decline from 42.03 lakh porting requests reported ... Continue_Reading
India’s broadband connection base decreased 0.12% to 15 million at the end of February 2013, from 15.01 million at the end of January, according to the Indian Telecom regulator TRAI. ... Continue_Reading
The Cellular Operators Association of India (which includes most of India’s GSM telecom operators), has reported an addition of 5.35 million GSM connections in March 2013, closing in at 660.9 million, an ... Continue_Reading
As of September 2012, urban wireless connections account for nearly 63.52% of the total telecom wireless connections in India, up from 61.44 % reported in March 2011. Some observations: (Remember that ... Continue_Reading
Between March 2007 and September 2012, the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for India’s CDMA mobile users declined by 61.5% whereas the decline in the ARPU for GSM mobile users ... Continue_Reading
The number of wireline subscribers in India stood at 31.08 million wireline subscribers at the end of September 2012, a minor dip from 31.43 million subscribers reported at the end of June 2012. ... Continue_Reading
Debit card transactions have steadily been rising among State Bank of India customers, data procured from the bank via the Right To Information Act by MediaNama has revealed. The number of transactions in November ... Continue_Reading
India registered 221.6 million mobile handset shipments for the year 2012 (January-December), up by 20.8% Y0Y from 183.4 million mobile handset shipments for the year 2011, according to CMR’s India Mobile ... Continue_Reading