India DTH Subscribers Hit 54 million
New Delhi, India, May 10, 2013--According to the latest “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reported that as of end of 2012, India had 54.52 million subscribers registered with six private DTH operators.
Besides the free DTH service of Doordarshan, there are six private DTH licensees, offering DTH services to subscribers. As of end of 2012, India had 54.52 million subscribers registered with six private DTH operators.
India’s total number of permitted private satellite TV channels at 823. There are 184 pay TV channels in existence at the end of December 2012.
The number of wired and wireless telephone subscribers in India declined by 4.5 percent to 895.51 million at the end of December 2012 but Internet subscribers increased from 24.01 million in September 2012 to 25.33 million at the end of the year registering a quarterly growth rate of 5.49 percent.
In the “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) said the decline in the teledensity reflects year-on-year negative growth of 3.35 percent over the same quarter of the previous year. The overall teledensity in India declined from 77.04 as of September 2012 to 73.34 at the end of 2012.
The report said subscription in urban areas decreased from 595.69 million in September 2012 to 556.96 million at the end of 2012, resulting in urban teledensity decline from 161.13 to 149.90. Rural subscription also decreased from 342.01 million to 338.54 million, resulting in rural teledensity drop from 40.36 to 39.85. However, share of subscription in rural areas increased from 36.47 percent in September 2012 to 37.8 percent of the end of December 2012.
With a decline of 41.90 million subscribers during the quarter, total wireless(GSM+CDMA) subscriber base registered a negative growth of 4.62 percent over the previous quarter and subscriber base declined from 906.62 million at the end of September 2012 to 864.72 million at the end of December 2012. The year-on-year (Y-O-Y) negative growth rate of wireless subscribers for December 2012 is 3.26 percent. Thus wireless teledensity decreased from 74.49 in September to 70.82 at the end of December 2012.
Wireline subscriber base further declined from 31.08 million in September 2012 to 30.79 million at the end of end of December 2012, bringing down the wireline teledensity from 2.55 in September to 2.52 at the end of 2012.
Internet subscribers increased from 24.01 million at the end of September to 25.33 million at the end of December, registering a quarterly growth rate of 5.49 percent. However, for a country of 1.27 billion population, the Internet subscribers remains starkly low.
India’s broadband subscribers increased from 14.68 million in September to 14.98 million at the end of December 2012, registering a quarterly growth of 2.02 percent and Y-O-Y growth of 12.23 percent.
Share of broadband subscription in total Internet subscription decreased from 61.16 percent at the end of September 2012 to 59.15 percent at the end of December 2012. 84.82 percent of the Broadband subscribers are using Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology.
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