TRAI July 2026 data: India adds 6.2 million telephone connections, MNP requests near 16 million

You can access the TRAI report here . We missed this earlier : India added 6.2 million telephone connections in July 2026 , taking the total subscriber base to 1.354 billion , according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The month also saw 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) subscriptions cross 13.2 million , with rural users slightly ahead of urban users, while 15.98 million mobile number portability (MNP) requests were submitted.