With 6.13 million new additions in March 2007, country's GSM subscriber base has hit 121.43 million. That's a 5.32% increase over the last month figure of 115.29 million subscribers. During the month, the lead was set by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)which added 1.98 million subscribers. Following it was Bharti Airtel with 1.70 million new subscribers and Hutch Essar with 1.09 million.
During the month, the pressure was maintained by leading CDMA operator Reliance Communications that added 1.2 million subscribers. That's a neat 7.33 million new subscribers in a month without accounting for the additions by Tata Teleservices. However, one must remember that the biggest additions in every fiscal are in March, coinciding with the end of the fiscal year for operators.
Not surprisingly, the sharpest growth was in the C circles that grew by 8.73%. B circles grew grew by 6.66% followed by A circles at 4.82%. the metros grew by just 2.99%. Among the states, Assam grew 12.44% followed by North-East (11.16%) and Rajasthan (11.13%).
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