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India Added 13.44 Million Mobile Subscribers in February
India's telecoms regulator has published the connection figures for February, noting that a total of 13.42 million telephone connections (Wireline and Wireless) have been added during February 2009 as compared to 15.26 million connections added in January 2009.
The total number of telephone connections reaches 413.47 million at the end of February 2009 as compared to 400.05 million in January 2009. With this growth, the overall tele-density has reached 35.62 at the end of February 2009 as against 34.50 in January 2009.
The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL(F)) base stood at 375.74 million at the end of February 2009. A total of 13.44 million wireless subscribers have been added during the month of February 2009 as against 15.41 million wireless subscribers added during the month of January 2009.
In the wireline segment, the subscriber base has decreased to 37.73 million in the month of February 2009 as against 37.75 million subscribers in January 2009 registering a drop of 0.02 million.
| Network Operator | Subscriber Base (End Feb) |
|---|---|
| Bharti Airtel | 91,114,971 |
| Reliance | 69,640,383 |
| Vodafone Essar | 65,920,902 |
| BSNL | 49,241,997 |
| Idea | 37,470,110 |
| Tata Teleservices | 33,867,024 |
| Aircel | 17,099,390 |
| MTNL | 4,377,754 |
| Spice | 4,048,503 |
| BPL Mobile | 2,073,184 |
| Sistema Shyam | 498,535 |
| HFCL Infotel | 389,839 |
| State-wise Total | 375,742,592 |
Posted to the site on 19th March 2009