Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 58.3 mln in April

Videocon Industries (India)

26/06/2018 12:56

June 26 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base fell
4.93 percent, or a net 58.3 million, to 1.13 billion in April,
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 April 30.
    
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                    4.5             308.7
 Vodafone India                  -0.7             222.0
 Idea Cellular                    5.6             216.8
 Reliance Jio                     9.6             196.2
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.7             112.4
 Telenor                         -1.8             36.2
 Tata Teleservices               -2.1             29.1
 MTNL                            -0.01             3.5
 Reliance Communications       -0.000003           0.2
 Aircel                          -74.2              0
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in April were 1.01 billion.
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of
wireless subscribers, were 86.52, as of April 30. Mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 151.78, compared with 56.31 in
rural areas.
    * In April, 6.7 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 419.8 million, as of
end-April. There were 401.4 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 22.6
million by end-April from 22.8 million at the end of March.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.15 billion phone
users, as of April 30, or a total tele-density of 88.26.
    * Reliance Communications shut down its consumer mobile
business late last year and plans to sell wireless assets to
Reliance Jio.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1OT25O
    * Bharti Airtel has agreed to acquire Telenor's India unit
and Tata Teleservices' consumer mobile business.
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    * Aircel had filed for bankruptcy in February, pressured by
a high debt pile and mounting losses.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1QI683
    
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 (Compiled by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by
Subhranshu Sahu)
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