The Corporation of Chennai and municipalities of the suburbs provide civic services. Garbage in most zones is handled by "Neel Metal Fanalica Environment Management", a private company, and by the Chennai Corporation in the other zones. Water supply and sewage treatment are handled by the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board, popularly referred to as "CMWSSB". Electricity is distributed by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. 
The city does not have a piped gas network and gas is supplied in cylinders by both state owned and private petroleum companies.

Telephone services in the city are provided by nine mobile phone service companies that include nine GSM networks and two CDMA networks along with four land line companies. Commercial and domestic broadband Internet services are provided by all the four land line service providers and a majority of the mobile network service providers. Some areas of the city are also covered by a paid Wifi Internet service.

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