Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 2.8 mln in Sept

Videocon Industries (India)

21/11/2017 12:52

Nov 21 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base in September fell 0.24 percent, or a 
net 2.80 million, to 1.18 billion, data released by the country's telecoms regulator showed on 
Tuesday. 
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in India, the world's second-biggest 
wireless market by number of users, as of September 30. 
     
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN) 
 Bharti Airtel                     1               282 
 Vodafone India                  - 0.7            207.4 
 Idea Cellular                   - 0.9            190.2 
 Reliance Jio                     5.9             138.6 
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.6             105.8 
 Aircel                          - 0.4            88.8 
 Reliance Communications         - 5.1            72.2 
 Telenor                         -0.9              46 
 Tata Teleservices               -2.1             44.9 
 Sistema Shyam TeleServices      - 0.2             3.5 
 MTNL                            0.005             3.6 
  
 NOTE: 
    * Active mobile subscribers in September were 1.02 billion 
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 91.56 
as of Sept 30. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 168.20 compared with 56.31 in rural areas. 
    * In September, 5.49 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 324.9 million, as of end-September. There were 306.4 
million broadband users through mobile phones and dongles, while 18 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 23.7 million by end-September from 
23.8 million at the end of August. 
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone users as of Sept 30, or a total 
tele-density of 93.40. 
     
   Source text: http://bit.ly/2Al9el4 
 
 (Compiled by Tanvi Mehta in Bengaluru) 
 ((tanvi.mehta@thomsonreuters.com; +91 80 67494756 ; Reuters Messaging: 
tanvi.mehta.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: INDIA TELECOMS/USERS