The Indian telecom subscriber base has touched 225 million. Mobile subscribers account for 185 million. In June 2007, the mobile telecom subscriber base shot up by 7.3 million new subscribers. That's the highest ever additions in the country. It has also eclipsed the 7.06 million new subscribers that China added during the month.
In fact, in the first quarter of this fiscal (Apr-Jun, over 20 million new mobile subscribers were added. However, the fixed line base has fallen by 0.66 million during the period to 40.09 million. GSM operators added 5.38 million subscribers while CDMA operators added another 1.92 million. Leading the race was Bharti Airtel that added 1.96 million, followed by Reliance Communications (1.59 million) and Vodafone Essar (1.54 million). However, all that pales into insignificance when one looks at China, where China Mobile added 5.53 million subscribers and China Unicom another 1.53 million.
Not surprisingly, BSNL has managed to add just 0.43 million. After all where do you add subscribers when your network is choked to the gills. Hopefully, minister A Raja withstanding, BSNL can go ahead with the truncated tender for 23 million GSM lines.
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