- By Raju Kumar
- Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:01 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A fresh data, released by the Delhi government, showed that the capital city has more than six crore telephone connections, including landlines. The port also stated that every resident of the capital accessed at least two cell phones on average.
Further, the Department of Economics and Statistics of Delhi government highlighted that wireless telephone connections stood at about 5.61 crore in 2025, while wireline services stood at 47.1 lakh. The overall number of telephone connections in Delhi has remained largely stable over the past eight years.
The total subscriber in Delhi base stood at
- 5.74 crore in 2018
-5.53 crore in 2019
-5.66 crore in 2020
-5.79 crore in 2021
-5.62 crore in 2022
-5.85 crore in 2023
-6.11 crore in 2024
-6.08 crore in 2025
The data shows that the number of telephones remained relatively stable. However, wireline telephone connections in the capital have registered a consistent and sharp increase.
Wireline Subscribers Show Increasing Trend
Wireline subscribers rose from about 31.9 lakh in 2018 to 32.6 lakh in 2019 and 32.7 lakh in 2020. The growth accelerated thereafter, with connections increasing to nearly 33.9 lakh in 2021, jumping to over 39.2 lakh in 2022, and crossing 40.6 lakh in 2023.
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The upward trend continued in 2024 with about 44.3 lakh wireline phones and further strengthened to over 47.1 lakh in 2025, it stated.
In contrast, wireless telephone connections have shown fluctuations and a slower pace of growth during the same period. Wireless subscribers stood at about 5.42 crore in 2018 but declined to around 5.21 crore in 2019, according to the data.
The numbers recovered to about 5.34 crore in 2020 and increased to nearly 5.45 crore in 2021 before falling again to around 5.22 crore in 2022. Wireless connections rose to about 5.44 crore in 2023 and peaked at nearly 5.67 crore in 2024, before slipping slightly to around 5.61 crore in 2025, it mentioned.(With PTI inputs)