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Aircel Signs Tower Sharing Deal with BSNL

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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

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Asia Pacific Operators in Q3 '07: CDMA staging a revival?

The three months ended September 30th saw a record number of new connections in the Asia Pacific region. Overall, nearly 85 million new customers were connected which is very nearly as many as Germany, Europe's largest economy, has added in the 22 years since mobile service started. The vast majority of these chose to adopt either GSM or WCDMA technology, these two accounting for 66.1m and 9.4m of the total respectively.  more

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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

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