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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 is 895.832 million, out of whom 34.36 million are narrowband subscribers and 861.472 million are broadband subscribers. [3]
The total number of broadband subscribers stood at 944.40 million as of 30 September 2024. [32] [33] Total Wireless broadband subscribers stood at 899.79 million and wireline broadband subscribers stood at 44.62 million. [3] The top 5 services constituted 98.42% market share of the total broadband subscribers. [33]
A Tier 2 network is an Internet service provider which engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but which also purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet. [ 1 ] Tier 2 providers are the most common Internet service providers, as it is much easier to purchase transit from a Tier 1 network than to peer with them and ...
There were 1151 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offering broadband and narrowband services in India as on 30 September 2023. The ten largest ISPs account for 98.82% of the total subscriber base. The ten largest ISPs account for 98.82% of the total subscriber base.
A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection (also known as settlement-free peering). [1] [2] Tier 1 networks can exchange traffic with other Tier 1 networks without paying any fees for the exchange of traffic in either direction. [3]
Tier 2 ISPs depend on Tier 1 ISPs and often have their own networks, but must pay for transit or internet access to Tier 1 ISPs, but may peer or send transit without paying, to other Tier 2 and/or some Tier 1 ISPs. Tier 3 ISPs do not engage in peering and only purchase transit from Tier 2 and Tier 1 ISPs, and often specialize in offering ...
In February 2018, the average broadband speed of fixed-line connection in India was 20.72 Mbit/s, which is less than the global average download speed of 42.71 Mbit/s. [76] In terms of mobile internet speed, India performed quite poorly, with average speed of 9.01 Mbit/s when compared with global average mobile broadband speed was 22.16 Mbit/s.
In March 2017 Bharti Airtel acquired Tikona 4G business including wireless broadband access spectrum. [2] After announcement of this deal the home WIPRO business of Tikona Digital Networks Pvt Ltd was absorbed by the Tikona Infinet limited. Tikona has an all-India Class-A ISP licence granted by the Ministry of Communications, government of ...