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Articles tagged with: Aircel and Reliance
Ten new connections in India by the time you've read this headline
The Indian set a new world record for organic monthly net additions in September with an uplift of 9.99m, beating its own previous best of 9.90m. This is equivalent to 3.9 new connections every second in September. The total market reached 310.62m with a penetration rate of 27.5%, which should mean that there is plenty of potential for further growth. more
Related Tags: world-record, vodafone, personal, bharti, bsnl, India
Vodafone losing to Bharti as India's net adds reach all-time high
Monthly net additions in the Indian GSM market were the highest ever recorded in January 2008, according to the latest data from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). Including estimates for Reliance, whose reporting still lags by a month, GSM net additions increased in number to 6.54m in January - beating the previous best of 6.24m set in August 2007. more
Related Tags: bharti, bharti-airtel, India
Consolidation in India as Reliance in Talks to Buy Aircel Cellular
Related Tags: reliance-communications, rcom, compete, maxis, maxis-communications
Reliance India Base Sees 2007 Growth Fall Behind 2006
The latest figures from the Indian operators' associations the COAI and AUSPI show that the Indian mobile market has seen a net 20.55m new customers in the first four months of 2007 - less than the 20.96m recorded in the same period in 2006. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, in April 2006 Reliance Communications made an adjustment to the way it counted mobile subscribers, including its fixed-wireless customers in the figures for the first time and boosting its ranks as a result. Secondly, March 2007 saw the termination of India's customer re-verification procedure whereby the personal details of all of the country's mobile subscribers had to be checked by the operators - and a procedure which saw the same operator, Reliance, disconnect some 4m unverified customers. more
Related Tags: reliance-communications, bsnl, mtnl, maxis, coai
India - GSM daily adds almost 180k in February as CDMA falters
CDMA net additions in India dropped to their lowest level for nine months in February 2007, as Reliance Infocomm took its foot off the gas after four successive months of net additions over 1m. In total a net 1.14m new CDMA customers were added to the national customer base in India in February, which equates to just 23% of the GSM total of 4.88m for the month. Given that February has only 28 days, however, the totals are not strictly comparable with other months of the year. more
Related Tags: bharti, bharti-airtel, tata-teleservices, maxis
Significant Drop in Mobile User Satisfaction Levels in 2006
A nation-wide mobile users' satisfaction survey carried out in India shows that there has been a large scale drop in satisfaction of mobile phone subscribers with respect to most service providers during 2006 compared to the previous year. The 4th survey conducted by the publication, Voice&Data, is based on a sample base of 4,524 respondents across 51 Indian cities in 23 states. more
Related Tags: customer-care, bharti, bharti-airtel, mtnl, mobile-banking, tata-teleservices, trai, spice