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Urban telephone subscription decreased from 662.75 million at the end of January 2020 to 661.23 million at the end of February 2020, however the rural subscription increased from 514.27 million to 519.62 million during the same period.

Going further, Trai is mulling allowing 'export' or use of that data to enable people to build tariff-comparison apps and products, just as one sees for insurance or airline fares.

The Communications Ministry will "analyse" the impact of Goods and Services Tax on telecom subscribers, and approach the Finance Ministry in case consumers or players face "genuine problems", Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said on Monday.

The telecom subscriber base crossed 1.2 billion mark in May, according to sectoral regulator Trai. While the growth was led by 6.23 million net subscriber additions in the mobile services segment, it was marginally impacted by decline of 0.14 million landline subscribers.

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.

Telecom regulator Trai will "look into" the complaints about operators doling out customised retention offers to influence subscribers who want to shift to a rival network.

In order to take feedback of telecom subscribers on call drops, government is planning to soon come out with a tool free number.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed Vodafone's plea challenging a demand of over Rs 7.57 crore imposed on it by the Income Tax department for not deducting TDS for the assessment year 2013-14 on discount given to distributors towards sale of recharge coupons.

Telecom subscriber base of the country reached all-time high of 97 crore at the end of December 2014, as per the latest report by regulator TRAI.

Telecom subscriber base in the country reach 96.42 crore in November with Idea Cellular leading the race in terms of new customer additions, as per the data released Wednesday by sector regulator TRAI.

The telecom regulator TRAI will invite views of public on issues related to roll out of broadband in the country by end of next month.

GSM based telecom players added 48.5 lakh new subscribers in July to take the total user base to 74.44 crore, industry body COAI said Thursday.