The telecommunications industry is divided into the following subsectors: infrastructure, equipment, mobile virtual network operators (MNVO), White Space Spectrum, 5G, telephone service providers and broadband.

According to the GSMA, India is on track to become the world's second largest smartphone market by 2025 with around 1 billion devices installed and is expected to have 920 million unique mobile subscribers by 2025, which will include 88 million subscribers. 5G connections.

Telecom tower in India is booming as its lease ration will increase from 1.95 times in 2016 to 2.9 times in 2020 due to the expansion of 3G and 4G and the emergence of 5G technologies.

More than 70 companies have received approval from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide MVNO services. Most of these companies focus on Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities

The DoT targets a combination of 100% broadband connectivity in villages, 55% fiberization of mobile towers, average broadband speeds of 25 mbps, and 30 lakh km of fiber optic deployments by December 2022. By December By 2024, 70% tower fiberization, average broadband speeds of 50 Mbps, and 50 lakh kms of fiber optic deployments are anticipated at the Indian level.

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