The Indian mobile growth saga continues. In December, 4.64 million new GSM subscribers signed up. Add to that 1.4 million CDMA subscribers for Reliance Communications. That's the third month in a row that over 6 million subscribers have been added on. However, the Tata Teleservices (CDMA) numbers are still not available.
Now, India's GSM subscriber base is at 105.42 million. Of that Bharti Airtel accounts for 32 million. State-owned BSNL is behind at 23.36 million followed closely by Hutch Essar at 23.31 million subscribers. During the month, Bharti Airtel added 1.71 million subscribers, while Hutch Essar added 1.03 million subscribers. Reliance Communications too added a million subscribers across CDMA and GSM.
Among the circles, Assam recorded the highest growth at 9.22%. That's double of the national average of 4.6%.
The GSM subscriber base has shot up by 46.92 million during the year, an increase of 80.2% pver December 2005 base of 58.5 million.
No comments:
Post a Comment