{"id":1041157,"date":"2026-10-06T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041157"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:11:52","slug":"mobile-subscriber-base-grows-9-4-despite-tariff-hikes-trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/mobile-subscriber-base-grows-9-4-despite-tariff-hikes-trai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile subscriber base grows 9.4% despite tariff hikes: TRAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite tariff hikes by mobile operators, India\u2019s wireless subscriber base continued to grow, registering an annual growth rate of 9.40% in 2025-26. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)\u2019s The Indian Telecom Services \u2013 Yearly Performance Indicators for 2025-26, the number of wireless (mobile) subscribers increased from 1,156.99 million at the end of March 2025 to 1,265.73 million at the end of March 2026, registering a yearly growth rate of 9.40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite tariff hikes by mobile operators, India\u2019s wireless subscriber base continued to grow, registering an annual growth rate of 9.40% in 2025-26. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)\u2019s The Indian Telecom Services \u2013 Yearly Performance Indicators for 2025-26, the number of wireless (mobile) subscribers increased from 1,156.99 million at the end of March 2025 to 1,265.73 million at the end of March 2026, registering a yearly growth rate of 9.40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041166,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041157\/revisions\/1041166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}