Table: India's mobile phone customer base rises 1.71 mln in February

Videocon Industries (India)

18/04/2019 11:11

April 18 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base rose
0.14 percent, or a net 1.71 million, to 1.18 billion in
February, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India 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 Feb. 28.
    
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                   -0.05           340.31
 Vodafone Idea                   -5.79           409.37
 Reliance Jio                    7.79            297.23
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam            0.90            116.23
 Reliance Communications        -0.0036           0.019
 Tata Teleservices               -1.15            17.01
 MTNL                           -0.005            3.47
 
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in February were 1.02 billion
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of
wireless subscribers, were 90.20, as of Feb 28. Mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 157.18, compared with 58.93 in
rural areas.
    * In February, 5.28 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 550.24 million, as of
end-February. There were 531.95 million broadband users through
mobile phones and dongles, while 18.29 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
21.72 million by end-February from 21.79 million at the end of
January.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone
users, as of Feb. 28, or a total tele-density of 91.86.
    
    Source text - http://bit.ly/2vbfh7e

 (Compiled by Chris Thomas in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu
Sahu)
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