Of cellular subscriber additions

Telecom operators added 9.88 million mobile subscribers in January, taking the total telephone user base in the country to 936.12 million, sectoral regulator Trai said. India’s mobile subscriber base increased to 903.73 million in January, up from 893.84 million in the preceding month, registering a growth of 1.11 per cent, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a statement. The overall teledensity (telephones per 100 people) in India reached 77.57 per cent. However, the number of active mobile subscribers, according to the visitor location register (VLR) data, was 659.97 million on the date of Peak VLR for the month of January 2012. VLR numbers provide details on active customers at any given point of time, excluding switched-off and out-of-th-ecoverage area customers.
The growth in the wireless category was led by Uninor, which added 2.49 million users, taking its total subscriber base to 38.79 million. It was followed by Idea Cellular, which added 1.74 million new users to take its subscriber base to 108.12 million. Airtel added 1.3 million subscribers and its base was 176.95 million users. Reliance Communications and Vodafone added 0.94 million and 0.85 million new customers to take their subscriber base to 151.02 million and 148.60 million, respectively.