Mobile subscribers News

Under MNP, wireless telephone subscribers can retain their mobile numbers when they relocate from one service area to another.

Aitel, Vodafone and Idea are allowing re-verification of mobile number using OTP based authentication for users.

DoT is waiting for the Supreme Court judgement on Aadhaar issue.

The re-verification exercise is scheduled to be completed by early 2018.

The government has initiated a series of measures, including allowing re-verification at subscribers' doorstep and One Time Password (OTP) based authentication of existing users.

The telecom subscriber base in the country reached 1,198.89 million in April but growth continued its downward trend in line with slower pace of new customer additions by Reliance Jio.

Vodafone India on Friday reported a 3.4 percent dip in revenue to 1.57 billion pounds (around Rs 13,900 crore) for the three months to June -- despite an over 22 percent rise in data income -- bogged down by fall in rupee and income due to regulations.

India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers, or actual individual subscribers, by 2015-end, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSM telecom players global body GSMA said on Thursday.

Plagued by the vexed problem of call drops, telecom regulator TRAI on Friday proposed that service providers should compensate mobile subscribers for call drops and poor quality of services.

The new directive from telecom regulator TRAI follows a large number of complaints from customers that mobile operators were keeping the process of deactivation very complex to earn extra revenue.

India grew the most in terms of mobile subscribers across the world with 26 million net additions in the first quarter this year, a report by telecom equipment maker Ericsson said Wednesday.

Even though India has over 96 crore mobile subscribers, only 6 percent of them are over 50 years of age, indicating that senior citizens are not fully receiving the benefits of mobile Internet, says a survey.

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said this was a reflection on how much the mobile phone network has expanded in the country.

The new GSMA report forecast that the number of unique mobile subscribers will increase from 3.6 billion at the end of 2014 to 4.6 billion by 2020, increasing by four per cent per year over this period.

Mobile phone subscribers can now give instant feedback on quality of services provided by operators to regulator TRAI through online or through an Android based mobile application.

Over two billion mobile phone or tablet users will make some form of mobile commerce transaction globally by the end of 2017, up from 1.6 billion this year, according to a new report.

The world has added more than a billion mobile phone subscribers in the last four years alone, with the total number reaching 3.2 billion, almost half the earth's population, organisers of an industry event here said.

The government is trying to achieve full MNP by March 2015.