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  • India Fiber Broadband Growth: Fwa & Ftth Surge

    India Fiber Broadband Growth: FWA & FTTH SurgeIndia's fiber broadband market is booming, driven by FWA and FTTH adoption. Revenue is expected to reach $16.5B by 2029, with fiber optic lines dominating. Jio leads the market.

    “Rising need for high-speed net services and competitively priced fiber broadband plans from operators, with advantages like unrestricted net and accessibility to major SVoD platforms, are expected to drive fiber broadband solution adoption in India throughout the forecast period,” stated Vaidya.

    FWA Subscriber Growth in India

    Jio and Airtel have been supplying their particular 5G FWA solutions since late 2023. India had 7.5 million FWA subscribers as of April 2025, consisting of Jio’s 6.14 million and Airtel’s 1.36 million. FWA additions– 730,000– in April had currently exceeded set broadband– 370,000– and constitute 60– 80% of the total month-to-month broadband enhancements, an Axis Funding report stated.

    Fixed Broadband Market Revenue Forecast

    “Set broadband services earnings, on the various other hand, will certainly increase at a CAGR of 5.7% during 2024– 2029, driven by the development in broadband registrations, particularly fiber broadband, and with the recent intro and planned development of FWA services by Dependence Jio Infocomm (Jio) and Bharti Airtel over the following few years,” Srikanth Vaidya, telecommunications analyst at GlobalData, claimed in the record.

    India’s earnings from fixed communication services, such as repaired wireless gain access to (FWA) and wired broadband, is expected to rise to $16.5 billion in 2029 from $12.8 billion in 2024, growing at a compounded annual price (CAGR) of 5.2%, on solid demand for broadband solutions, according to a report.

    Voice communication over fixed line is set to fall at 1.7% over 2024– 2029, underscored by a decline in average profits per customer as even more and more subscribers embrace mobile/app-based communication services, and as drivers consist of complimentary voice mins with their repaired line bundled strategies, the record by GlobalData claimed Thursday.

    Jio is readied to lead the nation’s repaired broadband solutions market in terms of membership share over the duration, supported by its strong setting in the growing FTTH service section and efforts to increase its FWA solutions.

    Fiber Optic Dominance Expected

    GlobalData anticipates India’s fiber optic lines to hold about 94% of total broadband lines in 2029, supported by the government’s investments in fiber network framework and operators’ FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) service expansions. Consequently, fiber optic service revenue is anticipated to boost at a CAGR of 6.4% between 2024 and 2029.

    1 5G capex
    2 5G FWA
    3 Authority of India
    4 fiber broadband
    5 fixed broadband
    6 FTTH