GSM telecom operators added 6.87 million subscribers in March, taking the total user base to 664.08 million.
The GSM subscriber base stood at 657.21 million at the end of February.
Bharti Airtel added the most 2.5 million users, taking its total
subscriber base to 181.28 million, according to the data released by the
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
It had a market share of 27.3 per cent by March-end.
Rival Vodafone Essar, with a 22.66 per cent market share, added 1.02
million new subscribers, taking its subscriber to 150.47 million.
Uninor, which has seen significant growth in user base in the previous
months, added 1.29 million new customers. Its user base was at 42.43
million by March-end. Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular added 2.01
million users to take its total user base to 112.72 million.
Aircel lost 0.68 million customers and its subscriber base was at 62.57
million. Reliance Telecom added 59,829 new users to take its user base
to 31.84 million at the end of March.
State-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL added 0.89 million and 62,399
million new users, respectively, taking their subscriber base to 94.67
million and 5.59 million, respectively.
Leading GSM operators seemed to have cornered a major chunk of users of
new telecom operators, which announced closing operations after the
Supreme Court order cancelling their licences through mobile number
portability (MNP).
Operators such as S Tel, Etisalat DB and Loop Telecom have announced
shutting down of services and are now helping their users move to other
operators through MNP.
The Supreme Court had in February cancelled 122 licences that were allotted in 2008.
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