The base of wireless subscriber reached 617 million in May
June 30, 2010
It has been recently stated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India that the base of wireless subscriber has increased from 601.12 million in April to 617.53 million at the end of the May which shows a growth rate of 2.71%. The wireless teledensity at the end of May was 52.30%.
Among all the telecom operators, Bharti Airtel got the maximum net additions with 3 million new subscribers and the company was followed by Reliance Communications at 2.8 million, Vodafone at 2.6 million, Tata Teleservices at 2.4 million, Aircel at 1.6 million and Idea with 1.4 million new subscribers. The stated owned BSNL and MTNL had 1 million and 39,000 new subscribers respectively.
Of all the circles, A, B, C and metros, the maximum number of wireless subscribers were achieved by Circle B which was 6.3 million. Following circle B was Circle A which added 5.3 million subscribers then Circle C with 2.5 million and finally the metros which added 2.2 million subscribers.
