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India's mobile subscriber base reaches 919.17 million in March
Thursday May 03, 2012 08:29:08 PM,
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New Delhi: The number
of mobile phone subscribers in India rose to 919.17 million in
March with Bharti Airtel alone signing 2.5 million of the 8
million new subscribers, official data showed Thursday.
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the
wireless user base grew 0.88 percent with an addition of 8 million
subscribers, from 911.17 million in February.
With this, the total number of telephone subscribers, including
land line holders, touched 951.34 million, registering a growth of
0.83 percent. Overall teledensity in India reached 78.66 percent.
However, of the total 919.17 million wireless subscribers, only
683.02 million subscribers were active subscribers on the date of
peak visitor location register (VLR) -- a temporary database of
the subscribers who have roamed into the particular area, which it
serves.
Each base station in the network is served by exactly one VLR,
hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one VLR at a
time.
The total number of subscribers of Bharti Airtel stood at 181.3
million. Idea Cellular added 2 million to take its total
subscribers base to 112.72 million.
Uninor added 1.3 million customers taking its subscribers base to
42.4 million while Reliance Communications added 1 million users
increasing its subscribers count to 153 million susbscribers.
Vodafone also added one 1 million subscribers to have a total
number of 150.5 subscribers.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar
Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) added 7,61,794 and 58,681 users to have
98.5 million and 5.8 million users respectively.
According to the data, the broadband subscriber base grew 1.86
percent from 13.54 million in February to 13.79 million in March.
However, the wireline segment declined marginally from 32.33
million in February to 32.17 million in March.
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