Total telephone subscribers
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1,228.9 million
India · September 2025
Total telephone subscribers in India reached 1,228.9 million in September 2025 (TRAI).
- Publisher
- TRAI
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 30th September 2025 - Total Telephone Subscribers (Million)
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Total Telephone Subscribers (Million) 1182.32 46.61 1228.94
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- APA
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. (2025). Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 September 2025. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2183057. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_K8KCJF1JN813XEK57EKCTMZ7K1
- MLA
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. "Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 September 2025." 2025, https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2183057. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_K8KCJF1JN813XEK57EKCTMZ7K1.
- Chicago
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. "Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 September 2025." 2025. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2183057. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_K8KCJF1JN813XEK57EKCTMZ7K1.
- BibTeX
- @misc{trai2025indiatmz7k1, author = {{Telecom Regulatory Authority of India}}, title = {Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 September 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_K8KCJF1JN813XEK57EKCTMZ7K1}, note = {Original source: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2183057. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 September 2025
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 27 October 2025
- Locator
- Highlights of Telecom Subscription Data as on 30th September 2025 - Total Telephone Subscribers (Million)
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_K8KCJF1JN813XEK57EKCTMZ7K1