• India adds 16.9 million mobile subscribers in May

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    According to TRAI’s report for telecom subscriber growth in May, India has added 16.9 million new mobile subscribers in May. With a wireless subscriber base of 617 million and the wireline subscriber base of 36 million, the total telecom subscriber base of India has crossed 653 million.

    Airtel has added 3 million new subscribers in May followed by RCom and Vodafone, which added 2.8 million and 2.5 million new subscribers, respectively. While 10 out of 11 carriers have made net additions, Uninor has lost a few subscribers. Check out the subscriber additions of each carrier in the table below:


    Carriers       May additions Wireless subscriber base
             (in millions)          (in millions)
             Aircel               1.6                40.07
             Airtel               3.0              133.6
             BSNL               1.05               71.6
             Idea               1.4               66.7
             MTNL               0.03                5.1
             Sistema               0.4                4.6
             RCom               2.8            107.9
             Stel               0.1                1.2
         Tata Teleservices               2.3              70.2
            Uninor           -0.008               5.0
           Vodafone              2.5            106.3
    29 June 2010 in Carriers, News by

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