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This is a list of internet service providers in India. There were 1076 internet service providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrowband internet services in India as of 30 June 2023.^[1]

By subscribers edit

Broadband is defined by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as "an always-on data connection ... that offers a minimum downlink and uplink speed of 2 Mbps".^[2] The number of internet users are 895.832 million, out of which 34.36 million are narrowband subscribers and 861.472 million are broadband subscribers.^[3] The following table shows the top 5 ISPs in India by total subscriber base as of 30 June 2023.

Rank	ISP	Narrowband Subscribers	Broadband Subscribers	Total Subscribers
1	Jio	—	428,200,000
2	Airtel	19,969,265	268,028,831
3	Vi	11,043,432	124,896,076	135,939,508
4	BSNL	2,882,539	24,588,532	27,471,071
5	Atria Convergence Technologies	—	2,159,293	2,159,293

Note:

On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy at NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other services due to closing down of most of the consumer services.^[4]^[5]
The services of Telenor India has been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.^[6]
On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular and renamed as Vodafone Idea Limited.^[7]

Other notable ISPs edit

ISP	Coverage area
RailTel Corporation of India	Public Sector (state-owned) ISP with pan-India optic fiber network along Railway track

Enterprise/wholesale only edit

National Knowledge Network for educational institutions in India
PowerGrid

References edit

^ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators April – June 2023" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 5 December 2023.
^ Sep 1, Debashis Sarkar. "TRAI to government: Fix 2Mbps as the minimum broadband internet speed across India - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators September 2021" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 5 December 2023.
^ Sengupta, Devina (28 February 2018). "Aircel, country's last small mobile phone operator, files for bankruptcy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
^ "Aircel's bankruptcy note on Facebook".
^ Gulveen Aulakh. "DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India merger". The Economic Times.
^ Parbat, Kalyan (31 August 2018). "NCLT gives go-ahead to Idea-Vodafone merger". The Economic Times.