TRAI Report: Phone Users Rise to 1,348.08 Million in June

The correct answer is 1,348.08 million. The report for the quarter ending June 2026 records this as the total of wireless and wireline connections, a rise of 1.31 per cent over the previous quarter and of 10.65 per cent over the same quarter a year earlier. Option A is the subscriber base at the end of March 2026, that is the figure for the previous quarter, from which the base grew. Option B is the wireless total of mobile and fixed wireless access connections alone and therefore leaves out wireline users. Option D is the number of internet subscribers at the end of the quarter, a different indicator altogether, since many connections are counted as telephone subscriptions without being internet subscriptions. Candidates should link each figure to its own indicator: total telephone subscribers, wireless subscribers, and internet subscribers are three separate counts in the same report.

The correct answer is 94.31 per cent. Tele-density measures telephone connections for every hundred people, and the overall figure improved from 93.26 per cent at the end of March 2026 to 94.31 per cent at the end of June 2026. Option B is therefore the previous quarter's number and not the current one. Option A is the wireless tele-density counting mobile and fixed wireless access connections, which is lower than the overall figure because the overall number also includes wireline connections. Option D is the urban tele-density, which crosses a hundred because many urban users hold more than one connection; the matching rural tele-density was 60.89 per cent. A candidate should keep the four tele-density figures separate, since examiners often swap the urban figure for the overall one in the options.

The correct answer is 28.39 GB. Average monthly mobile data use for each wireless data subscriber rose to this level in the quarter ending June 2026 from 26.70 GB in the quarter ending March 2026. Option B is that earlier figure and so belongs to the previous quarter rather than the one under review. Options A and D do not match either quarter in the report. The same report shows total mobile data carried in the quarter rising to 84,424 PB from 77,953 PB, while the average revenue realised for every GB of wireless data fell to Rs 7.13 from Rs 7.51, which explains how usage can grow while the price of data keeps sliding. Monthly ARPU for wireless service still rose to Rs 187.12, because subscribers consume much more data than before.