India added 20 mn mobile users in Feb

Telecom operators added 20.2 million mobile subscribers in February, taking the total number of telephone users in the country to 826.25 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said on Wednesday. According to data released by Trai, the mobile subscriber base increased to 791.38 million at the end of February from 771.18 million in the preceding month, registering a growth of 2.62%. With this, the overall teledensity (tel ephones per 100 people) in India reached 69.29%. The growth in the wireless category was led by Vodafone which added 3.5 million users, taking its subscriber base to 130.92 million by end of February 2011. Bharti Airtel added 3.2 million sub scribers, taking its user base to 158.99 million. Idea Cellular and Aircel added 2.5 million and 1.66 million users, respectively.