India’s broadband subscriber base rose to 1,107.68 million at the end of September 2026, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India even as country’s largest telecom operator Reliance Jio added 2.713 million mobile subscribers in the month under review, ahead of Bharti Airtel’s 2.692 million wireless additions.

Broadband subscriptions grew 0.59 percent month-on-month, according to TRAI’s data compiled from 1,596 operators and released yesterday as part of overall monthly telecoms services performance indicators.

The wider telecom market also expanded, with total telephone subscribers increasing by 7.23 million to 1,367.93 million during September, a monthly growth of 0.53 percent.

The mobile subscriber additions for Vodafone Idea stood at 0.550 million in September.

With the latest additions, Jio’s wireless mobile subscriber tally increased to 511.1 million at September-end, compared with Airtel’s 494.3 million, and Vodafone Idea’s over 200 million count.

Wireless subscriptions, including mobile and fixed wireless access (FWA), rose by 6.94 million to 1,319.19 million, registering monthly growth of 0.53 percent.

Wireline subscriptions increased by 0.29 million to 48.74 million, up 0.60 percent. Of the total telephone subscriber base, urban users accounted for 59.05 percent and rural users 40.95 percent.

Urban telephone subscriptions rose by 5.50 million to 807.78 million, while rural subscriptions increased by 1.73 million to 560.16 million.

Overall tele-density, including machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular connections, climbed to 95.52 percent. Urban and rural tele-density stood at 155.85 percent and 61.30 percent, respectively.

Mobile wireless access remained the largest broadband segment, adding 5.85 million subscribers to reach 1,039.09 million, a monthly increase of 0.57 percent.

Fixed wireless access subscriptions grew by 1.84 percent to 19.70 million, while fixed wired access subscriptions rose by 0.54 percent to 48.89 million.

Reliance Jio Infocomm led the broadband market with 541.17 million subscribers, followed by Bharti Airtel with 388.86 million, Vodafone Idea with 131 million, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) with 28.55 million and Atria Convergence Technologies with 2.50 million.

The five providers together accounted for 98.59 percent of the broadband market.

M2M cellular mobile connections increased from 140.50 million in August to 144.85 million in September. Bharti Airtel led this segment with 88.58 million connections, representing a 61.16 percent market share.

Mobile number portability requests rose to 16.77 million during September.