As on 30 September 2006 there are 396 Licenses for Provision of Internet Services out of which 128 have signed Licenses for Provision of Internet Service (Including Internet Telephony). Based on reports received from Internet Service Providers till March 2006 there are approximately 7.1 million Internet subscribers in the India.

Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs): In total 31 companies / organizations have been issued licenses for setting up and operating captive VSAT network via INSAT Satellite System for their Closed User Group (CUG) Communication. In addition, 11 commercial VSAT licensees are operating commercial VSAT service who are permitted to offer VSAT services to number of CUGs by having shared Hub infrastructure. The data rate allowed to be uplinked from VSAT has been increased to 2 Mbps in case of Mesh Network and 512 kbps in case of Star Network. Over 63,000 VSATs and 260 Earth stations are operational in India.