{"id":16520,"date":"2022-02-25T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/india-surpasses-a-billion-active-mobile-subscriptions-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:08:06","slug":"india-surpasses-a-billion-active-mobile-subscriptions-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/india-surpasses-a-billion-active-mobile-subscriptions-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

One billion Indian wireless services subscribers were active in December 2021 \u2013 the first time the nation has breached the nine-figure barrier. But that colossal number betrays a market that is still far from saturated by smartphones or ready for rich digital services.<\/p>\n

News that the nation topped the billion mark emerged in data<\/a> [PDF] released last week by the nation’s Telecom Regulatory Authority, which revealed that on a single day in December last year 1,000,630,000 subscribers were active. The regulator counted 1.155 billion mobile subscriptions in the same month.<\/p>\n

By way of contrast, China’s big three carriers already boast<\/a> more than 750 million 5G subscriptions and over one billion 4G accounts. India still has tens of millions of people on 2G networks, and its carriers are yet to operate a 5G network.<\/p>\n

\n