Broadband Users Reach 1101.21 Million in India in August 2026

The correct answer is 1101.21 million, the broadband base at the close of that month. Option A is wrong because that is the figure for the end of the previous month, July 2026; the difference between the two is what produces the monthly growth of 0.61 per cent, so quoting it means reading the earlier month by mistake. Option C is wrong because that figure counts active wireless subscribers on the date of peak Visitor Location Register, a measure of connections actually in use at a moment rather than of broadband accounts. Option D is wrong because that number is not a subscriber count at all; it is the number of operators whose returns the regulator used to compile the month's data. Alongside these figures, remember that overall tele-density stood at 95.07 per cent and that Mobile Number Portability requests came to 15.83 million.

The correct answer is 95.07 per cent. Tele-density expresses the number of telephone connections for every hundred people, and for the country as a whole, with machine-to-machine cellular connections counted in, it stood at that level. Option A is wrong because that is the rural tele-density, which remains far below the national average and marks the gap policy is trying to close. Option B is wrong because that is the same national measure calculated after leaving machine-to-machine connections out, a narrower reading of the same indicator. Option D is wrong because that is the urban tele-density, which crosses a hundred because many town dwellers hold more than one connection. The wireless share of the national figure was 91.69 per cent and the wireline share 3.39 per cent.

The correct answer is 15.83 million. Mobile Number Portability allows a subscriber to shift to another operator while keeping the same telephone number, and that many requests were filed during the month under review. Option A is wrong because no figure of that size appears in the month's portability data, and it would understate the churn considerably. Option C is wrong for the same reason; it belongs to none of the indicators reported for portability. Option D is wrong because requests did not climb to that level in the month. Read this indicator with the rest of the release: broadband subscribers at 1101.21 million, overall tele-density at 95.07 per cent, urban tele-density at 155.00 per cent and rural at 61.12 per cent, since examiners like to pair one headline figure with one sub-indicator.