Summary:
At India Mobile Congress 2025, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced that India’s telecom and digital sectors could account for 20% of the nation’s GDP within the next decade, highlighting India’s rapid digital transformation, rising subscriber base, and domestic telecom innovations.
Telecom’s Growing Role in India’s Economy
Scindia pointed that India already has 1.2 billion mobile subscribers (around 20%) and internet users increasing from 250 million to 974 million. He noted that broadband connections have risen from 60 million to 944 million users in the last 10 years.
He added that India is no longer a service economy, but a product nation. Under the PLI (Production Linked Incentive) scheme, the country has produced new production, ₹18,000 crore in exports, and 30,000 new jobs in the tech and telecom sectors.
Scindia also celebrates India’s indigenous telecom progress. Globally India it is the fifth country that will create its 4G stack, in which more than 1 lakh towers are already active under BSNL’s indigenous 4G rollout. He said that these towers would later transition to 5G as India continues to create domestic value chains.
