New Delhi, March 3 According to a report by the sector regulator, Trai, released on Tuesday, the cumulative gross revenue of telecom service providers crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark in the December 2025 quarter, reaching Rs 1.02 lakh crore.
The gross revenue of telecom service providers (TSPs) was Rs 96,390 crore a year ago and Rs 99,828 crore in the September 2025 quarter.
The adjusted gross revenue (AGR) grew by 8.13 per cent year-over-year to Rs 84,270 crore in the December 2025 quarter, from Rs 77,934 crore in the same period a year ago.
The adjusted gross revenue (AGR) is derived from the sale of telecom services and government levies, including license fees and spectrum usage charges.
Access service providers, such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea, accounted for 84.54 per cent of the total AGR in the December 2025 quarter.
The AGR data published until the September 2025 quarter by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in the performance indicator report shows that Reliance Jio topped the chart with revenue of Rs 31,767.11 crore.
It was followed by Bharti Airtel with an AGR of Rs 28,497.45 crore, and Vodafone Idea with Rs 8,176.62 crore.
State-run BSNL, which has turned profitable, reported a decline of 12.61 per cent year-over-year in AGR to Rs 2,003.48 crore. BSNL's sister concern MTNL posted about a 75 per cent decline in AGR on a year-on-year basis to Rs 37.77 crore.
The government's license fee collection grew by 8 per cent year-over-year to Rs 6,733 crore, and spectrum usage charges increased by 3.19 per cent to Rs 1,020 crore.
