Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 0.95 mln in August

Videocon Industries (India)

09/11/2017 07:58

Nov 9 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base in August fell 0.08 percent, or a net 
0.95 million, to 1.186  billion, data released by the country's telecoms regulator showed on 
Thursday. 
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in India, the world's second-biggest 
wireless market by number of users, as of August 31. 
     
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN) 
 Bharti Airtel                   - 0.2             281 
 Vodafone India                  - 2.4            208.1 
 Idea Cellular                   - 2.9            191.1 
 Reliance Jio                     4.1             132.7 
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.7             105.3 
 Aircel                          - 0.8            89.1 
 Reliance Communications          - 4             77.3 
 Telenor                         -0.1              47 
 Tata Teleservices                4.9              47 
 Sistema Shyam TeleServices      - 0.2             3.7 
 MTNL                            0.006             3.6 
  
 NOTE: 
    * Active mobile subscribers in August were 1.02 billion 
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 91.87 
as of August 31. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 169.05 compared with 56.39 in rural 
areas. 
    * In August, 5.03 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 316.48 million, as of end-August. There were 297.90 
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 23.8 million by end-August from 23.9 
million at the end of July. 
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone users as of August 31, or a 
total tele-density of 93.71. 
     
   Source text: http://bit.ly/2hmgTHS 
 
 (Compiled by Vishal Sridhar in Bengaluru) 
 ((Vishal.Sridhar@thomsonreuters.com; +91 80 6749 4338; Reuters Messaging: 
vishal.sridhar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: INDIA TELECOMS/USERS