BSNL continues to top the list of ISPs in country with share of over 60%

[MAHI]

NEW DELHI: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
(BSNL) continues to top the list of broadband
service providers in the country with a market
share of 60.74 per cent in the first quarter of
2013.
The state-run BSNL has 13.12 million internet
subscribers at the end of March 2013,
according to the report for the first quarter by
the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI).
Reliance Communications is the second highest
provider with 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. This telecom
statistics does not include internet accessed by
mobile phones
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 per cent.
In the internet subscription (excluding internet
access through wireless phone), the share of
broadband subscription is 69.65 per cent and
share of narrowband subscription is 30.35 per
cent 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 year-on-year
growth of 8.98 percent.
The number of narrowband subscribers
decreased from 6.59 million to 6.56 million.