Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 0.05 mln in July

Videocon Industries (India)

13/09/2017 12:03

Sept 13 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base in July fell 0.004 percent, or a net 
0.05 million, to 1.19 billion, data released by the country's telecoms regulator showed on 
Wednesday. 
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in India, the world's second-biggest 
wireless market by number of users, as of July 31. 
     
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN) 
 Bharti Airtel                    0.6             281.3 
 Vodafone India                  -1.4             210.5 
 Idea Cellular                   -2.3              194 
 Reliance Jio                    5.22             128.6 
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.4             104.5 
 Aircel                          -0.4             89.9 
 Reliance Communications         -0.06            81.3 
 Telenor                         -0.3             47.1 
 Tata Teleservices               -1.6             42.1 
 Sistema Shyam TeleServices      -0.2              3.9 
 MTNL                           -0.005             3.6 
  
 NOTE: 
    * Active mobile subscribers in July were 1.19 billion 
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 92.03 
as of July 31. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 168.21 compared with 57.04 in rural areas. 
    * In July, 5.91 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 310.87 million, as of end-July. There were 292.2 million 
broadband users through mobile phones and dongles, while 18.1 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 23.92 million by end-July from 24 
million at the end of June. 
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone users as of July 31, or a total 
tele-density of 93.88. 
     
    * Source text: http://bit.ly/2xkGqa7 
 
 (Compiled by Samantha Kareen Nair in Bengaluru) 
 ((samanthakareen.nair@thomsonreuters.com; +91 8067491310, Reuters Messaging: 
samanthakareen.nair.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: INDIA TELECOMS/USERS