With a current wireless subscriber base in excess of 250 million and over eight million new subscribers a month, India is expected to become the second largest mobile population in the world after China. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) announced that India is expected to overtake the US by April this year. India added 8.53 million wireless subscribers in February to take the total tally of wireless subscribers to 250.93 million. 

Three carriers added over a million subscribers in February. Bharti Airtel added over 2.25 million users in February, while Reliance Communications added 1.61 million and Vodafone Essar 1.41 million.