Top Telecom brands in India

About Telecom Industry in India

Being one of the growing sectors in the country of India, Telecom Industry occupies the 3rd rank in the global telecommunications networking and 2nd position in the emerging Asian economy. This industry is even growing fast in terms of mobile telephones in India. This notable boom in the Indian telecom industry resulted in huge investments. According to a report published by T. R. A. I. (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) during the year 2010, the country has got more than 671.69 million telephone subscriber. The number of subscribers is even increasing day by day.

Telecom brands in India

The country has got numerous companies involved in this growing telecom business. Those companies or brands can mainly be divided into 3 broad categories, which are as follows:

• State owned brands like BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) and MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.)
• Private country owned companies, for example, Reliance Communications, Tata Communications and Tata Teleservices Ltd..
• Companies with foreign investments like Bharti Tele – Ventures, Loop Mobile Ltd. (Former BPL Mobile Ltd.), Idea Cellular Ltd., Escotel, Vodafone – Essar Ltd., Spice Communications Ltd. and many more.

Apart from these brands, there are many other companies operating in Indian telecom market, some of which are mentioned below:

• Aircel Group
• Aishwarya Telecom Ltd.
• Avaya Global
• Etisalat D. B. Telecom India Private Ltd.
• Gemini Communications
• GTL
• ITI
• Kavveri Telecom
• Krone Communications
• Mobile Telecommunications Ltd.
• MTS India (Earlier Sistema Shyam Telecom)
• Nelco
• Nettlinx
• Nu Tek
• On Mobile Global
• Quadrant Televentures Ltd. (Earlier HFCL Infotel Ltd.)
• S. Tel Ltd.
• TTML (Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd.)
• Unitech Wireless Ltd.
• Valiant Communications
• Videocon Communications Ltd.
• Vital Communications
• XL Telecom & Energy Ltd.

Top Telecom brands in India

Involved in a continuous competition, some of the above mentioned telecom brands in India have earned their fame among the Indian residents for providing quality service. Among these telecom brands, Bharti Airtel is said to be the leading telecom brand of India. Let us have a quick look at some of the best brands of Indian telecom industry:

• Bharti Airtel:

  Apart from being India’s leading telecom service provider, this is even one of the valued companies in the country. Known for valuing the brand name, this Indian telecom company has got more than 93 million subscribers. Structured into 4 business units of digital TV, enterprise, mobile and telemedia, the company has recently got associated with global telecom.

• BSNL:

  Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., the 2nd biggest telecom service provider in India provides landline telephone service as well as mobile telephone services to more than 71.68 million customers across the nation. Apart from being the largest service provider of wired connection, their brand is even widely used by people for broadband connection. Spread over all the main cities and towns in the country, BSNL has been providing 2G connection to about 6 crore people since the month of February, 2010.

• Vodafone - Essar:

  Being the 3rd famous player in the field of telecom services in India, this subsidiary of the Vodafone Group has got more than 106.34 million subscribers all over the country.

• Reliance Communications:

  One of the leading ranks in market capitalization is held by Reliance Communications, which is a flagship company of Reliance ADA Group. Being one of the biggest private telecom companies in India, this brand is being used by more than 100 million people. The varied services offered by this Indian telecom brand include integrated and high capacity wired and wireless telecommunications, convergent digital network (Data, video and voice) and many more.

• MTNL:

  Known for providing telecommunication service along with telecom equipments and varied other value adding services, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. mainly operates in the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and Delhi. Besides serving around 8.06 million customers, this telecom brand in India provides GSM mobile telephone connections to over 9, 00, 000 people through digital telephone exchange.

To name a few more top telecom brands in India are:

• Aircel
• Idea Cellular
• Tata Communications
• Tata Teleservices
• TTML

Last Updated on 12/1/2011