India has added 4.9 million GSM subscribers in February 2007 to take the total GSM base to 115 million. The CDMA operators are yet to release their numbers. Assuming CDMA players have added about about 1.7 million subscribers, the CDMA base could be around 43-44 million. This will take the total mobile subscriber base to 160 million.
In February, Bharti Airtel added 1.7 million subs to touch a total of 35.4 million subs, which is a market share of 30.74 per cent. BSNL has about 25.4 million subs in total, and a market share of 22.07 per cent. The state-owned telco added 1 million subscribers last month. Hutch-Essar has 25.3 million subscribers, and Idea Cellular 13.6 million subscribers. Hutch-Essar added 0.928 million subs in February while Idea added 0.56 million mobile users in the same month.
More in The Economic Times and DNA.
Nikhil adds:
The GSM numbers from the COAI, segmented according to circles are available here. We’ll update with CDMA numbers from AUSPI.
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