Table: India adds 6 mln cellphone users in June

Videocon Industries (India)

14/08/2017 07:31

Aug 14 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base in June rose 0.51 percent, or a net 6 
million, to reach 1.19 billion, data released by the country's telecoms regulator showed on 
Monday. 
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in India, the world's second-biggest 
wireless market by number of users, as of June 30. 
     
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN) 
 Bharti Airtel                     2              280.6 
 Vodafone India                    1              211.9 
 Idea Cellular                   0.04             196.3 
 Reliance Jio                      6              123.4 
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam              1              104.2 
 Aircel                          -0.4             90.3 
 Reliance Communications          -1              81.3 
 Telenor                         -0.7             47.3 
 Tata Teleservices               -1.7             43.7 
 Sistema Shyam TeleServices      -0.2              4.1 
 MTNL                           -0.0003            3.6 
  
 NOTE: 
    * Active mobile subscribers in June were 1.19 billion 
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 92.12 
as of June 30. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 167.97 compared with 57.31 in rural areas. 
    * In June, 5.88 million mobile subscribers opted to change their service providers through 
mobile number portability. India is divided into 22 telecommunications service zones. 
    * Total broadband connections were 300.84 million, as of end-June. There were 282 million 
broadband users through mobile phones and dongles, while 18.3 million were using broadband 
through wirelines. Internet connections with a minimum download speed of 512 Kbps are considered 
as broadband in India. 
    * The number of fixed-phone line subscribers dropped to 24 million by end-June from 24.16 
million at the end of May. 
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone users as of June 30, or a total 
tele-density of 93.98. 
     
    * Source text: http://bit.ly/2vTJr0J 
 
 (Compiled by Jessica Kuruthukulangara in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips) 
 ((Reuters Messaging: Jessica.Kuruthukulangara.reuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: INDIA TELECOMS/USERS