인도 커버리지

인도 수치가 뜻하는 것

중요한 숫자는 두 개인데, 모든 판매사가 인용하는 건 그중 하나뿐입니다. 일반적인 속도는 46 Mbps입니다. 상태가 좋을 때가 어느 정도인지 알려주는 숫자입니다.

읽을 값어치가 있는 건 10분위, 9 Mbps 쪽입니다. 역 위 기지국이 가득 차고 주변 사람들이 모두 같은 전파에 붙어 있는, 하루 중 아래쪽 10퍼센트일 때의 속도입니다. 중앙값이 높고 바닥이 낮은 나라는 정작 필요한 그 순간까지만 훌륭하게 작동하는 나라입니다.

영상 통화나 테더링이 꼭 필요한 여행이라면 일반 속도가 아니라 혼잡 시 수치를 기준으로 계획하세요.

인도에서 망이 붐빌 때 벌어지는 일

혼잡은 고장이 아니라 화요일 저녁입니다. 문제는 그때 eSIM이 무엇을 할 수 있느냐인데, 대부분의 여행용 eSIM은 할 수 있는 게 없습니다. 나라마다 도매 계약 하나, 망 하나, 길에 선 채로 다른 회사 eSIM을 한 장 더 사는 것 말고는 빠져나갈 방법이 없습니다.

여기서 Orbislo 트래픽은 Jio 및 Airtel를 지납니다. 지금 쓰는 망이 나빠지면 여행 도중이라도, 요청하지 않아도 다른 망으로 옮깁니다. 그 순간에 방해하는 대신 옮기고 나서 알려드립니다.

인도의 이동통신사

• Reliance Jio: Reliance Jio is India's largest mobile operator, with 506.03 million wireless subscribers at the end of July 2026, a count that includes machine to machine connections. It added about 2.45 million that month.
• Bharti Airtel: Bharti Airtel had 489.49 million wireless subscribers at the end of July 2026, and 99.12 percent of them were active on the network's peak day, the highest share among the major operators. It also holds 61.33 percent of India's machine to machine connections.
• Vodafone Idea: Vodafone Idea, sold as Vi, had 199.06 million wireless subscribers at the end of July 2026, of whom 83.97 percent were active on the peak day.
• BSNL: State owned BSNL had 93.18 million wireless subscribers at the end of July 2026, but only 55.02 percent were active on the peak day. BSNL and MTNL together hold 7.25 percent of India's mobile market.
• BSNL: BSNL is building its 4G on an Indian developed network stack from C-DOT, Tejas Networks and TCS. By 31 October 2025 it had installed 97,068 of 100,000 ordered 4G sites, 93,511 of them on air, with equipment that can be upgraded to 5G.
• Adani Data Networks: Adani Data Networks won 400 MHz in the 26 GHz millimetre wave band in the 2022 auction, for 212 crore rupees. The government expected that band to be used mainly for captive or private networks and fixed wireless access.

인도의 구형 네트워크

• Airtel shut down its 3G network in Punjab on 18 October 2019 as part of a plan to phase out 3G across India, moving the 900 MHz spectrum to 4G. It kept 2G running for feature phones, and 3G only handsets fell back to voice calls.
• India's 4G saturation project also covers 6,279 villages that had only 2G or 3G mobile service, which are being upgraded to 4G.

인도의 5G

• India's July 2022 auction offered 72,098 MHz across ten bands and sold 51,236 MHz, 71 percent, for 1,50,173 crore rupees, the highest proceeds from any single Indian auction. No one bid for 600 MHz. Commercial 5G followed on 1 October 2022.
• Reliance Jio won 24,740 MHz for 88,078 crore rupees, including pan India 10 MHz in the 700 MHz band, the only 700 MHz sold, a band with a large range. Airtel won 19,867.8 MHz for 43,048 crore rupees and Vodafone Idea 6,228 MHz for 18,799 crore rupees.
• By 31 October 2025, 5G was available in 99.9 percent of India's districts with 85 percent population coverage, and operators had installed 5.08 lakh 5G base stations across every state and union territory.
• Jio runs its 5G as a standalone network with no dependence on its 4G core, on 700 MHz, 3,500 MHz and 26 GHz spectrum, and describes the 5G launched by other operators as non standalone, built on 4G.

인도 네트워크 참고 사항

• Mobile access is still far denser in cities than in the countryside: at the end of July 2026 urban wireless teledensity was 143.86 percent, against 59.59 percent in rural areas.
• In July 2022 the government approved a 26,316 crore rupee project to bring 4G to 24,680 villages in remote and difficult areas that had no mobile coverage. By October 2025, 13,142 towers were working, covering 19,465 villages.
• A phone signal is extremely unlikely in India's trekking mountains, so trekkers are advised to leave their route and expected return date with their accommodation, which registers their whereabouts through the online C form.
• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands were connected to the mainland by a 2,300 km submarine cable from Chennai on 10 August 2020, serving Port Blair, Little Andaman and Swaraj Island, with a boost to 4G on the islands.
• Lakshadweep relied only on satellite links until January 2024, when a 1,868 km submarine cable from Kochi reached eleven islands, including Kavaratti, Agatti and Minicoy. Its bandwidth is available to every Indian operator.
• Under a Submarine Cable Resilience Programme run in 2025, every submarine cable operator serving India submitted plans for network redundancy and geographically diverse routes, and repair ships were readied with the required clearances.