Broadband
Hungama partners with Videocon’s Connect Broadband
MUMBAI: India’s leading on-demand digital entertainment destination launched an exclusive entertainment service for Connect Broadband.
With this association, Connect broadband users across the cities of Punjab will be able to stream and download unlimited music, movies, videos and games at www.hungama.com/connect or chose the bundled offering of Hungama Play and Hungama Music apps along with their broadband plans through a single sign in and enjoy the benefits across all platforms.
Speaking on the association, Siddhartha Roy, CEO – Hungama.com said, “We are excited to partner with Connect Broadband the largest broadband service provider in Punjab and bring our on-demand entertainment services for their consumers. Across our destinations – Hungama Play, Hungama Music, we offer the biggest entertainment catalog and an extensive Punjabi catalog of movies, songs and music videos. With this partnership we bring to Punjab the best in entertainment and data with an unmatched experience.”
Commenting on the development Arvind Bali, CEO – Connect Broadband said: “We have joined hands with Hungama in a bid to do more for our customers and to provide them with more content and more entertainment. It is an attempt to go that extra mile for our loyal customers and to do a little more that we can, to keep them entertained, happy and satisfied. We want our customers to rely on us for content, speed, connectivity and of course entertainment.”
Hungama’s diverse library of over 3.5 million content pieces includes some of the biggest Bollywood, Hollywood and regional films including popular Punjabi titles Vaapsi, Channo Kamli Yaar Di, Dildaariyan, Hero Naam Yaad Rakhi, Jatt Juliet and many more. In addition, Hungama’s platform also houses a vast music library spanning decades of Indian and international hits along with fun and immersive games.
Hungama has forged similar partnerships in India with ACT Fibrenet, MTNL, BSNL, Hathway, Tata Photon and Sri Lanka Telecom.
Broadband
Airtel and Jio surge ahead as Vodafone Idea and BSNL lose subscribers in December
India’s mobile base rises in December, but gains skewed towards the top two operators
NEW DELHI: India’s telecom market ended 2025 with a familiar split: the leaders sprinting ahead, the laggards slipping further. Fresh data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) show Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio adding millions of wireless users in December, while Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL continued to bleed subscribers.
India’s overall telephone subscriber base, wireless and wireline, climbed to 1.306 billion in December 2025, a monthly rise of 0.66 per cent. Growth was driven largely by wireless, which accounted for the bulk of new additions.
Bharti Airtel added 5.42 million wireless subscribers during the month, the biggest net gain among operators. Reliance Jio followed with roughly 2.96 million additions. Their gains were spread across multiple licensed service areas, underscoring broad-based momentum.
The story was starkly different for their rivals. Vodafone Idea recorded a net loss of about 9.4 lakh wireless subscribers, extending a run of monthly erosion. BSNL also saw its base shrink by around 2.06 lakh users. Despite marginal gains in a few circles, the PSU’s overall wireless base continued to contract.
Taken together, net wireless (mobile) additions across operators stood at 7.23 million in December.
Wireless subscribers, including mobile and fixed wireless access (FWA), rose to 1.258 billion, a net monthly increase of 8.21 million. Wireless tele-density improved to 88.41 per cent, though the urban–rural divide remained wide: urban tele-density at 140.66 per cent versus 59.07 per cent in rural areas.
The wireline segment posted modest growth. Subscribers increased from 47.05 million in November to 47.37 million in December, a 0.68 per cent monthly rise. Urban areas continued to dominate, while rural wireline tele-density stayed low.
Broadband crossed a symbolic milestone, with total subscribers topping one billion to reach 1,007.35 million by December-end. Mobile wireless broadband remained the primary access mode. In fixed wireless access, 5G FWA subscribers grew 5.59 per cent month on month, signalling gradual uptake of next-generation services.
Yet churn remains high. TRAI noted that about 16.12 million subscribers submitted mobile number portability requests in December alone.
The scoreboard is clear: scale is breeding more scale at the top, while smaller players struggle to hold ground. In India’s brutally competitive telecom arena, December’s numbers show a market that is still growing, but not evenly—and momentum, for now, sits firmly with the frontrunners.
