Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 4.9 mln in Oct

Videocon Industries (India)

12/12/2017 10:16

Dec 12 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base in October fell 0.41 percent, or a net 
4.85 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 October 31. 
     
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN) 
 Bharti Airtel                    3.1            285.2  
 Vodafone India                   0.9             208.3 
 Idea Cellular                    0.7             190.9 
 Reliance Jio                     7.3              146 
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.6             106.4 
 Aircel                          -0.5             88.3 
 Reliance Communications         -10.9            61.2 
 Telenor                         -1.1             44.9 
 Tata Teleservices               -4.7             40.2 
 Sistema Shyam TeleServices      -0.2              3.3 
 MTNL                            0.01              3.6 
  
 NOTE: 
    * Active mobile subscribers in October were 1.03 billion. 
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 91.11 
as of Oct 31. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 166.17 compared with 56.54 in rural areas. 
    * In October, 9.6 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 340.2 million, as of end-October. There were 321.7 
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 23.5 million by end-October from 
23.7 million at the end of September. 
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.20 billion phone users as of Oct 31, or a total 
tele-density of 92.92. 
     
   Source text: http://bit.ly/2AwdD53 
 
 (Compiled by Jessica Kuruthukulangara in Bengaluru) 
 ((Jessica.Kuruthukulangara@thomsonreuters.com; +91-80-6749-7142; Reuters Messaging: 
Jessica.Kuruthukulangara.reuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: INDIA TELECOMS/USERS