'----"Forimmediate release (Press Release No. liB- /2019)Information Note to the Press

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TELECOMREGULATORYAUTHORITYOF INDIANew Delhi, '9~ovember, 2019

(www.trai.gov.in)

Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 30th September, 2019Total

Particulars Wireless Wireline (Wireless+Wireline)

Total Telephone Subscribers (Million) 1173.75 21.49 1195.24Net Addition in September, 2019 '(Million) 2.75 0.67 3.42Monthly Growth Rate 0.23% 3.23% 0.29%

Urban Telephone Subscribers (Million) 659.18 18.77 677.95Net Addition in September, 2019 (Million) -3.56 0.71 -2.85Monthly Growth Rate -0.54% 3.95% -0.42%

Rural Telephone Subscribers (Million) 514.56 2.72 517.29Net Addition in September, 2019 (Million) 6.31 -0.04 6.27Monthly Growth Rate 1.24% -1.46% 1.23%

Overall Tele-density*(%) 88.90 1.63 90.52Urban Tele-density*(%) 156.18· 4.45 160.p3Rural Tele-density*(%) 57.28 0.30 57.59

Share of Urban Subscribers 56.16% 87.33% 56.72%Share of Rural Subscribers 43.84% 12.67% 43.28%Broadband Subscribers (Million) 606.41 19.01 625.42

.:. In the month of September, 2019, 5.39 million subscribers submitted their

requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP). With this, the cumulative

MNP requests increased from 452.26 million at the end of Aug-19 to 457.65

million at the end of Sep-19, since implementation of MNP.

•:. Number of active wireless subscribers (on the date of peak VLR#) in

September, 2019 was 960.88 million.

Note:

Information in this Press Release is based on the data provided by the Service ProvidersBased on the population projections from Census data published by the Office of RegistrarGeneral & Census Commissioner of India.

# VLR is acronym of Visitor Location Register. The dates of peak VLR for various TSPs aredifferent in different service areas.

*

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• The number of telephone subscribers in

India increased from 1,191.81 million at

the end of Aug-19 to 1,195.24 million at

the end of Sep-19 , thereby showing a

monthly growth rate of 0.29%. Urban

telephone subscription declined from

680.80 million at the end of Aug-19 to

677.95 million at the end of Sep-19,

however the rural subscription increased

from 511.02 million to 517.29 million

during the same period. The monthly

growth rates of urban and rural

subscription were -0.42% and 1.23%

respectively during the month of Sep-19.

I. Total Telephone Subscribers

OVERALL TELE~DENSJTY(%1

161.54 160.63

TOTAL TElEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS(IN M'llUON)

11001,191.81~

1,195.24l""i

160

140

1000

800680.80 677.95

""'"600 511.02 517.29

~ ~ it', ~

400 I'ie,

[ I'200

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- ""

0 -Aug-19 Sep-19

• Total Subscribers DUrban Rural

• The overall Tele-density in India

increased from 90.34 at the end of

Aug-19 to 90.52 at the end of Sep-19.

The Urban Tele-density declined from

161.54 at the end of Aug-19 to 160.63

at the end of Sep-19. However, Rural

Tele-density increased from 56.92 at

the end of Aug-19 to 57.59 at the end

of Sep-19. The share of rural and

urban subscribers in total number of

telephone subscribers at the end of

Sep-19 was 56.72% and 43.28%

respectively.

120

100

80

60

40

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• Overall .Urban Rural

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Overall Tele-density (Circle/State Wise) - As on 30th September, 2019

Overall Tele-density (%)Total (Alllndia)

BiharUttar Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

AssamOdisha

NorthEastWest Bengal

Rajasthan

J&KAndhra Pradesh

Haryana

GujaratMaharashtra

KamatakaTamil Nadu

Punjab

Kerala

Himachal Pradesh

Delhi

0

59.72

68.91

70.28

71.64

--------- 75.8685.72

---------- 86.09

---------- 86.68

---------- 89.19----------- 98.10

98.85

105.78

107.64

110.97

117.21

127.22

(

128.25

149.16____________________________ 242.13

25 50 75 100 175 200 225 250125 150

• As may be seen in the above chart, nine states have less tele-density than

the all India average tele-density at the end of Sep-19. Delhi service area

has maximum tele-density of 242.13 and the Bihar service area has

minimum tele-density of 59.72 at the end of September, 2019.

Notes:

1. Population data/projections are available state wise only.2. Tele-density figures are derived from the telephone subscriber data provided by the access service

providers and the projections of population published by the Office of the Registrar General &Census Commissioner, India.

3. Telephone subscriber data for Delhi, includes, apart from the data for the State of Delhi, wirelesssubscriber data for the areas served by the local exchanges of Ghaziabad & Noida (in UttarPradesh) and Gurgaon & Faridabad (in Haryana).

4. Data/information for West Bengal includes Kolkata, Maharashtra includes Mumbai, Tamil Naduincludes Chennai and Uttar Pradesh includes UPE & UPWservice area(s).

5. Data/information for Andhra Pradesh includes Telengana, Madhya Pradesh includesChhatishgarh, Bihar includes Jharkhand, Maharashtra includes Goa, Uttar Pradesh includesUttarakhand, West Bengal includes Sikkim and North-East includes Arunachal Pradesh,Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland & Tripura States.

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II. Category-wise Growth in subscriber base

Circle Category-wise Net Additions in Telephone Subscribers in themonth of September, 2019

Net additions in the month r Telephone Subscriber base asCircle of September, 2019 on 30th September, 2019

- --Category Wireline Wireless Wireline Wireless

segment segment segment segmentCircle A 259,923 860,153 8,310,536 401,876,313

Circle B 'j 106,488 1,420,062 5,210,701 476,468,367"~

Circle C 33,297 301,247 846,263 176,549,744

Metro 273,135 i:f- :~ 170,042 7,123,252 118,853,549

All India 672,843 2,751,504 21,490,752 1,173,747,973

Circle Category-wise monthly and yearly Growth Rates inTelephone Subscribers in the month of September, 2019

Monthly growth rate (%) Yearly growth rate (%)Circle (Aug-19 to Sep-19) (Sep-18 to Sep-19)

Category Wireline Wireless Wireline WirelessSegment. Segment Segment Segment

Circle A 3.23 0.21 -4.54 0.01

Circle B 2.09 0.30 -6.09 -0.19

Circle C 4.10 0.17 -11.58 0.54

Metro 3.99 0.14 3.21 3.80

All India 3.23 0.23 -2.81 0.38

Note: Circle Category-Metro includes Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Data for Chennai has been includedin Circle Category-A, as part of TamilNadu. .

• As can be seen in the above tables, in wireless segment, Circles of all

Categories showed monthly growth in their subscribers during the

month of Sep-19. However, on yearly basis, Circles in Category 'B'

showed decline rate in their wireless subscribers during the month.

• In Wireline segment, Circles in all Categories showed monthly growth

rate in their subscribers during the month of Sep-19. This positive

growth in wireline segment has been seen due to reporting of wireline

subscribers by Mis Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd in the month of Sep-19.

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• Total wireless subscribers (GSM,CDMA

& LTE) increased from 1,171.00 million

at the end of Aug-19 to 1,173.75 million

at the end of Sep-19, thereby registering

a monthly growth rate of 0.23%.

Wireless subscription in urban areas

declined from 662.74 million at the end

of Aug-19 to 659.18 million at the end of

Sep-19, however wireless subscription in

rural areas increased from 508.25

million at the end of Aug-19 to 514.56

million at the end of Sep-19. Monthly

growth rates of urban and rural wireless

subscription were -0.54% and 1.24%

respectively.

III. Wireless Subscribers

Wireless Tele-density (%)157.25 156.18

57.28

140

120

100 88.90

80

56.6160

40

20

oAUG-19 SEP-19

IIOvera II IIUrban 0 Rural

Total Wireless Subscribers (in Million)

1200 1,171.00 1,173.75

1000

800

600

400

200

AUG-19 SEP-19

• Total II Urban IJ Rural

• The Wireless Tele-density in India

increased from 88.77 at the end of

Aug-19 to 88.90 at the end of Sep-19.

The Urban Wireless Tele-density

declined from 157.25 at the end of

Aug-19 to 156)8 at the end of Sep-19.

However, Rural Wireless Tele-density

increased from 56.61 to 57.28 during

the same period. The share of urban

and rural wireless subscribers in total

number of wireless subscribers was

56.16% and 43.84% respectively at the

end of Sep-19. Detailed statistics of

wireless subscriber base is available at

Annexure-I.

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"• As on 30th September, 2019, the private access service providers held ,

89.74% market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNLand MTNL,the

two PSU access service providers, had a market share of only 10.26%. The

graphical representation of access service provider-wise market share and net

additions in wireless subscriber base are given below:

Access Service Provider-wise Market Shares in term of WirelessSubscribers as on 30th September, 2019

Bharti Airtel,27.74%

BSNL,9.97% MTNL,0.29%

Vodafone Idea,31.73%

Reliance Jio,30.26%

PSU: 10.26%

Net Additions in Wireless Subscribers of Access Service Providersin the month of September, 2019

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Note: 1. Mis Bharti Airtel Ltd has reported the wireless subscribers including the subscribers ofMis Tata Te1eservices Ltd. However, DoT has not yet approved merger of them.

2. Virtual Network Operator (VNO)of BSNL has started reporting of its subscribers from themonth of October, 2018 and the same has been included in the subscriber base of BSNL.

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IV. Active Wireless Subscribers (VLRData)

• Out

subscribers

of the • The statistics

450

detailedtotal wireless

(1,173.75 of active wirelessmillion), proportion

of active wireless

subscribers (also referred to as

VLR subscribers) on the date of

peak VLR in the month of Sep-19

is available at Annexure-II and the

methodology used for reporting

VLR subscribers is available at

Annexure-IV.

960.88 million wireless subscribers

were active on the date of peak

VLR in the month of Sep-19. The

subscribers was approximately

81.86% of the total wireless

subscriber base.

Access Service Provider-wise Percentage of VLRSubscribersin the month of September, 2019

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proportion

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against its total wireless• Bharti Airtel has the maximum

proportion (92.98%) of its active

wireless subscribers (VLR) as

subscribers (HLR)on the date of

peak VLRin the month of Sep-19.

on

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Service Area wise percentage of VLRSubscribersin the Month of September, 2019

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V. Growth in Wireless Subscribers

Access Service Provider-wise Monthly Growth Rate of WirelessSubscribers in the month of September, 2019

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Service Area-wise Monthly Growth Rate of Wireless Subscribers in themonth of September, 2019

1.20%

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-0.80%

-1.00%

-1.20%

area showed maximum growth of

1.13% and J&K service area

showed maximum decline (1.09%)

in their wireless subscriber

• Out of the total 22 service areas,

thWree service areas showed

negative growth in their wireless

subscribers during the month of

September, 2019. Orissa service during the month.

VI. Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

• Intra-service area Mobile number • During the month of Sep-19, a

total of 5.39 million requests were

received for MNP. Out of total 5.39

million new requests, 3.38 million

requests received from Zone-land

2.01 million requests received from

Zone-II. The cumulative MNP

requests increased from 452.26

million at the end of Aug-19 to

457.65 million at the end of

Sep-19, since the implementation

ofMNP.

portability (MNP)was implemented

first in Haryana service area w.e.f.

25.11.2010 and in the rest of the

country w.e.f. 20.01.2011. Inter-

Service Area MNP has been

implemented In the country w.e.f.

03.07.2015. Now, the wireless

telephone subscribers can retain

their mobile numbers when they

relocate from one service area to

another.

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• In MNP Zone-I (Northern and

Western India), the highest number

of requests till date have been

received in Rajasthan (about 35.79

million) followed by Maharashtra

(about 34.34 million) service area.

• In MNP Zone-II (Southern and _

Eastern India), . the highest

number of requests till date have

been received in Karnataka (about

42.00 million) followed by Andhra

Pradesh (about 38.54 million).

Service Area Wise MNPStatusZone-l Zone - 2

Number of Porting Number of

Service Area Requests (inService Area

Porting RequestsMillion) (in Million)

Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19Delhi 23.28 23.54 Andhra Pradesh 38.20 38.54Gujarat 30.14 30.55· Assam 3.51 3.54Haryana 16.43 16.70 Bihar 18.30 18.53HimachalPradesh 2.21 2.23 :Karnataka 41.73 42.00

Jammu & Kashmir 1.11 1.12 Kerala 11.15 11.33

Maharashtra 33.60 34.34 Kolkata 10.83 10.90-

Mumbai 22.89 23.15 MadhyaPradesh 29.86 30.21Punjab 17.46 17.77 NorthEast 1.37 1.38

Rajasthan 35.51 35.79 Orissa 9.09 9.16U.P.(East) 24.96 25.36 TamilNadu 37.98 38.29U.P.(West) 20.24 20.66 WestBengal 22.41 22.55Total 227.83 231.21 Total 224.44 226.44Total (Zone-l + Zone-2) 452.26 457.65Net Addition (September, 2019) 5.39

VII. Wireline Subscribers

• Wireline subscribers increased wireline subscribers by Mj s

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd in the

month of Sep-19. The share of

urban and rural subscribers In

from 20.82 million at the end of

Aug-19 to 21.49 million at the end

of Sep-19. Net increase in the

wireline subscriber base was 0.67

million with a monthly growth rate

of 3.23%. This increased has been

seen due to reporting of number of

total wireline subscribers were

87.33% and 12.67% respectively

at the end of Sep-19.

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• The Overall Wireline Tele-density

increased from 1.58 at the end

of Aug-19 to 1.63 at the end of

Sep-19 . Urban and Rural Wireline

Tele-density were 4.45 and 0.30

respectively during the same

period.

• BSNL and MTNL, the two PSU

access service providers, held

61.93% of the wireline market

share as on 30th September, 2019.

Detailed statistics of wireline

subscriber base are available at

Annexure-III.

Access Service Provider-wise Market Shares of Wireline Subscribersas on 30th September, 2019

Reliance Jio3.99%

Reliance Com.. 2.85% _ vodafone Idea

1.74%

Tata Tele.-.,8.46% -- _Quadrant

0.97"-6MT L

14.80%

Bharti Airtel->20.06%

L-BSNl47.13%

Access Service Provider-wise Net Additions/declines in WirelineSubscribers during the month of September, 2019

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900000

800000

700000

600000

500000

400000

300000

200000

100000

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VIII. Broadband (~ 512 Kbps download)

• As per the reports received from

334 operators in the month of

September, 2019, the number of

broadband subscribers increased

end of Sep-19 with a monthly

growth rate of 1.62%. Segment-

wise broadband subscribers and

their monthly growth rates are as

below:from 615.43 million at the end of

Aug-19 to 625.42 million at the

Segment-wise Broadband Subscribers and Monthly Growth Rate in themonth of September, 2019

Broadband subscribers Monthly(in million) growth

Segment As on 31st As on 30th rate in theAugust, September, month of. Sep-192019 2019

Wired subscribers 18.32 19.01 3.76%

Mobile devices users 596.55 605.84 1.56%(Phones and dongles)Fixed Wireless subscribers(Wi-Fi,Wi-Max, Point-to- 0.56 0.57 1.23%Point Radio & VSAT)

Total 615.43 625.42 1.62%

• Top providers Infocom . Ltd (355.93 million),

Bharti Airtel (127.83 million),

Vodafone Idea (112.19 million),

BSNL (21.52 million) and Atria

Convergence (1.48 million).

five service

constituted 98.96% market share

of the total broadband subscribers

at the end of Sep-19. These

service providers were Reliance Jio

Note: Some wireless service providers exclude incidental data users from their subscriber base,based on minimum usage decided by them.

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• The graphical representation of the service provider-wise market share of

broadband services is given below:

Service Provider-wise Market Share of Broadband(wired + wireless) Services as on 30.09.2019

Vodafone Idea,17.94%

Bharti Airtel,20.44%

• As on 30th September, 2019, the

top five Wired Broadband Service

providers were BSNL (8.69 million),

Bharti Airtel (2.41 million), Atria

Convergence Technologies (1.48

million), Hathway Cable &

Datacom (0.86 million) and You

Broadband (0.75 million).

BSNL,3.44% AtriaConvergence,

0.24%

Contact details in case of any clarification:

Shri S. K. Mishra, Pr. Advisor (F&EA),Telecom Regulatory Authority of IndiaMahanagar Doorsanchar BhawanJawahar Lal Nehru Marg,NewDelhi - 110002,Ph: 011-23221856Fax: 011-23235249E-mail: skmishra. trai@nic.in

• As on 30th September, 2019, the

top five Wireless Broadband

Service providers were Reliance Jio

Infocom Ltd (355.22 million),

Bharti Airtel (125.42 million),

Vodafone Idea (112. 17 million),

BSNL (12.82 million) and MTNL

(0.21 million).

Authorized to issue:

~MiShra)Pr. Advisor (F&EA)

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Wireless Subscriber Base Annexure-I

Bharti Airtel Reliance Com. Vodafone Idea BSNL BSNL (VNO'sl MTNL Reliance Jio Totallinc1udin Tata Tele.) NetCircle AdditionAug·19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep·19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep·19

Andhra Pradesh 28840680 28582688 2025 1996 20955346 20785936 10022706 10001515 27701016 28222163 87521773 87594298 72525Assam 8326321 8280541 5506387 5552003 2666132 2683040 7352014 7524695 23850854 24040279 189425Bihar 36274615 35817828 229 228 18596047 18001497 4902021 4972729 25700781 26444863 85473693 85237145 -236548Delhi 15393347 15193043 2112 1955 18970433 19008494 2199663 2193766 16982656 17262657 53548211 53659915 111704Gujarat 10969061 10901828 586 584 29881572 29609720 6057587 6063321 21806920 22169402 68715726 68744855 29129Haryana 4326992 4345929 182 181 10221920 10140755 4990218 4991794 8595645 8777374 28134957 28256033 121076Himachal Pradesh 3396854 3396705 72 72 1184493 1176326 2906987 2916101 3231319 3277717 10719725 10766921 47196J&K 5544309 5401003 1066838 1066457 1206558 1227142 3644442 3642212 11462147 11336814 -125333Karnataka 28461282 28348715 1602 1366 14031675 14024742 7289454 7318899 19089683 19412784 68873696 69106506 232810Kerala 5426019 5468854 499 513 20052585 20080491 10921734 10922639 8204538 8415339 44605375 44887836 282461Kolkata 6433288 6375036 34 33 8605971 8542813 1701416 1725876 9584024 9749967 26324733 26393725 68992Madhya Pradesh 14965977 14873699 874 911 27669039 27381561 6383864 6376813 26234023 26789375 75253777 75422359 168582M aharashtra 15507101 15457252 869 872 43555960 43258812 7189291 7114912 27128209 27855424 93381430 93687272 305842Mumbai 9597124 9587377 3928 3362 14877618 14695907 1202342 1199522 13129551 13313741 38810563 38799909 -10654North East 5243637 5204449 2264824 2299987 1481148 1470027 3249018 3321927 12238627 12296390 57763Orissa 12092017 11958328 305 339 4361235 4078824 5189358 5773415 10860536 11061289 32503451 32872195 368744Punjab 10282091 10244140 296 297 11168934 11255026 5528790 5580919 12719827 12985842 39699938 40066224 366286Rajasthan 21383961 21228489 446 447 15690080 15543253 6078097 6089184 22475937 22804110 65628521 65665483 36962Tamil Nadu 25357822 25308215 2886 2849 23188693 23230608 12204940 12207346 85950 87287 21683244 21907077 82523535 82743382 219847[incl . Chennal)

U.P.(E) 30628872 30408251 812 871 32954435 32748382 11606982 11594150 24964522 25590939 100155623 100342593 186970U.P.(W) 131'(2935 13172868 62 62 27916543 27740350 5873538 5882986 17985718 18307439 64948796 65103705 154909West Bengal 16327929 16012386 742 769 22342886 22264844 2033280 2059221 15916481 16386914 56621318 56724134 102816Total 327952234 325567624 18561 17707 375063514 372486788 116234101 116972029 85950 87287 3402005 3393288 348240104 355223250 1170996469 1173747973 2751504Net Addition -2384610 -854 ·2576726 737928 1337 -8717 6983146 0 2751504Rural Subscribers 138465834 138335967 0 0 193666630 193670199 36661082 39647015 0 0 45973 45850 139413216 142865666 508252735 514564697 6311962

Note: 1. The subscribers of Mis Bharti Airtel includes subscribers of Mis Tata Teleservices Ltd. However, DoT has not yet approved the merger of them.

2. Virtual Network Operator (VNO)of BSNL has reported its subscriber number from the month of October, 2018.

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Proportion of VLR on the date of Peak VLR in the :month of Sep-19 (0/0) Annexure-II

Circle Bharti BSNL Vodafone Idea MTNL Reliance COlD.. Reliance Jio TotalI

Andhra Pradesh 100.20 65.68 85.24 66.88 80.08 86.23

AssaID. 95.98 55.56 71.84 83.73 82.06

Bihar 90.76 56.02 72.67 39.91 96.03 86.55

Delhi 89.10 80.62 20.10 102.51 82.78 81.24

Gujarat 93.31 49.48 87.00 30.99 80.27 82.52

Haryana 99.60 36.68 79.68 39.78 64.00 70.28

HiID.achal Pradesh 94.50 41.05 79.63 48.61 71.79 71.49

J&K 45.87 42.43 39.53 - 38.44 42.51

Karnataka 94.14 59.25 80.84 111.79 76.97 82.93

Kerala 95.52 67.17 87.85 35.67 68.81 80.18

Kolkata 92.62 59.28 83.92 - 78.62 82.45

Madhya Pradesh 92.12 49.06 80.12 41.60 88.57 82.86 ,

Maharashtra 97.05 53.83 89.82 59.86 90.47 88.48

MUID.bai 76.47 72.25 45.74 - 77.04 74.12

North East 98.16 73.72 69.32 - 87.88 87.07

Orissa 92.92 71.72 81.21 15.34 86.99 85.75

Punjab 96.37 42.76 73.72 25.59 70.04 74.00

Rajasthan 94.73 46.45 82.63 34.23 79.08 81.95TaID.il Nadu (incl. 93.43 69.51 86.59 81.05 76.88 83.57Chennai)

U.P. (E) 94.33 38.64 73.16 40.07 86.62 79.02

u.P. (W) 97.09 42.78 77.94 - 74.84 77.77

West Bengal 91.98 84.13 80.24 27.57 86.63 85.54

Total 92.98 55.33 81.21 29.16 72.49 81.61 81.86

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Wireline Subscriber Base Annexure-III

BSNL MTNL Bharti Airte I Reliance Com. Tata Tele. Quadrant Vodafone Idea Reliance Jio Total NetService Area AdditionAug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Aug-19 Sep-19

Andhra Pradesh 850992 825255 212344 213024 39418 36093 175263 174689 61250 45400 82615 1339267 1377076 37809

Assam 102654 101798 3360 3330 8164 106014 113292 7278

Bihar 163778 159224 2635 2455 8388 8316 2010 1920 11492 176811 183407 6596

Delhi 1456036 1449474 1501653 1503158 92246 88482 156614 152806 63945 66535 90098 3270494 3350553 80059

Gujarat 857768 853515 98043 97626 15502 14983 87975 87974 31005 31386 122230 1090293 1207714 117421

Haryana 195285 192571 22989 22751 2130 2130 37678 38745 270 270 4531 258352 260998 2646

Himachal Pradesh 102773 101583 1616 1684 . 1782 1902 60 60 259 106231 105488 -743

J&K 102779 113382 4128 102779 117510 14731

Karnataka 960232 947721 709968 716038 111758 110456 274440 274740 53647 53007 46582 2110045 2148544 38499

Kerala 1728213 1716430 61752 62538 13715 13402 19115 19714 4320 4500 9380 1827115 1825964 -1151

Kolkata 439477 432700 133082 133472 36680 36288 53210 53862 11'560 11470 29775 674009 697567 23558

Madhya Pradesh 637791 629848 243395 242992 6968 6186 14628 15215 1170 1230 39713 903952 935184 31232

Maharashtra 986500 969251 103483 104364 42401 42071 264829 266368 25743 25753 31824 1422956 1439631 16675

Mumbai 1736279 1730772 384647 383002 165953 159114 551055 549234 67680 67487 185523 2905614 3075132 169518

North East 98062 97145 240 240 3115 98302 100500. 2198

Orissa 207297 205227 2079 1944 8053 8221 5400 5430 5244 222829 226066 3237

Punjab 357182 349295 137644 137774 10362 10515 12282 12214 214421 209109 1800 1860 32417 733691 753184 19493

Rajasthan 405574 397932 58064 58353 17512 16928 11556 11598 12720 12990 33213 505426 531014 25588

Tamil Nadu (inct.Cncunai) 1329601 1308841 548685 547608 61661 60323 125225 125959 22880 23940 70900 2088052 2137571 49519

U.P.(E) 314473 310533 64610 63977 4928 4474 8404 8333 12350 12440 26238 404765 425995 21230

U.P.(W) 245172 238018 24207 24144 2622 2469 4678 4773 4500 5430 14358 281179 289192 8013

West Bengal 185479 179223 1624 1654 2510 2511 120 120 5662 189733 189170 -563

Total 10271082 10129492 3192315 3180246 4304566 4310821 631810 611651 1817685 1817174 214421 209109 386030 374798 0 857461 20817909 21490752 672843Net Addition -141590 -12069 6255 -20159 -511 -5312 -11232 857461 672843

Rural Subscribers 2672747 2630924 0 0 0 0 1280 1247 46970 47243 42090 41297 0 0 2056 2763087 2722767 -40320

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Annexure IV

VLRSubscribers in the Wireless Segment

Home Location Register (HLR) is a central database that contains details of

each mobile phone subscriber that is authorized to use the GSM core network.

The HLRs store details of every SIM card issued by the service provider. Each

SIM has a unique identifier called an International Mobile Subscriber Identity

(IMSI),which is the primary key to each HLR record. The HLR data is stored

for as long as a subscriber remains with the service provider. HLR also

manages the mobility of subscribers by means of updating their position in

administrative areas. It sends the subscriber data to a Visitor Location Register

(VLR).

Subscriber numbers reported by the service providers is the difference

between the numbers of IMSI registered in service provider's HLR and sum of

other figures as given below:-

1 Total IMSI's in HLR (A)

2 Less: (B = a + b + C + d + e)

a. Test/ Service Cards

b. Employees

Stock in hand/in Distribution Channels

c. (ActiveCard)

d. Subscriber Retention period expired

e. Service suspended pending disconnection

3 Subscribers Base (A-B)

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Visitor Location Register (VLR)is a tempo~ary database of the subscribers

who have roamed into the particular area, which it serves. Each base station

in the network is served by exactly one VLR; hence a subscriber cannot be

present in more than one VLRat a time.

If subscriber is in active stage i.e. he is able to send/receive calls/SMSs he is

available both in HLR and VLR. However, it may be possible that the

subscriber is registered in HLR but not in VLRdue to the reason that he is

either switched-off or moved out of coverage area, not reachable etc. In such

circumstances he will be available in HLR but not in VLR. This causes

difference between subscriber number reported by the service providers based

on HLRand numbers available in VLR.

The VLRsubscriber data calculated here is based on active subscribers in VLR

on the date of Peak subscriber number in VLR of the particular month for

which the data is being collected. This data is to be taken from the switches

having the purge time of not more than 72 hours.

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