Bharti Airtel Adds 2.46 Million Mobile Phone Users in May
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Bharti Airtel, India's biggest cellphone operator by subscribers, added 2.46 million mobile users in May, data issued by an industry body showed Wednesday.
As a result, Bharti's total mobile phone user base has grown to nearly 66.83 million subscribers at the end of May, data from the Cellular Operators Association of India showed.
In May, Vodafone Essar added 1.69 million mobile phone users taking its total subscriber base to 47.47 million, said COAI, which represents the nine operators using global system for mobile communications technology.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. added 314,281 mobile phone users, taking its total subscriber base to 37 million at the end of May.
Idea Cellular added 1.1 million users and had 26.14 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of May.
Another state-run operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (500108.BY), added 66,686 mobile phone users in May, taking its total subscriber base to 3.35 million.
-By Santanu Choudhury, Dow Jones Newswires; 91-11-41207565; santanu.choudhury@dowjones.com
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Posted to the site on 11th June 2008
