30.5.13

Telecom User Base update

India’s total telecom subscriber base increased marginally to 89.80 crore in March 2013 from 89.20 crore at the end of February 2013, according to data released by sector regulator Trai.
“The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 898.02 million at the end of March, 2013 from 892.02 million at the end of February 2013, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.67%,” Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in the monthly subscriber data report. Trai said the overall teledensity in the country increased to 73.32 at the end of March 2013 from 72.90 in the previous month.
Reliance Communications added the maximum of 30.26 lakh subscribers in the month to take its user base to 12.29 crore at the end of March 2013. It is followed by Vodafone, which added 24.66 lakh users to take its base to 15.23 crore. Idea Cellular added 23.17 lakh new subscribers, while market leader Bharti Airtel added 15.73 lakh users in March.
State-run BSNL added 5.36 lakh new subscribers while MTNL lost 86,833 users during the same period.

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