Table: India's mobile phone customer base rises 5.94 mln in May

Videocon Industries (India)

18/07/2018 13:11

July 18 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base
rose 0.53 percent, or a net 5.94 million, to 1.13 billion in
May, data released by the country's telecoms regulator showed
on Wednesday.
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in
India, the world's second-biggest wireless market by number
of users, as of May 31.
    
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                        35.9              344.6
 Vodafone India                        0.4              222.5
 Idea Cellular                        -2.5              214.2
 Reliance Jio                          9.4              205.5
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam                  0.5              112.9
 Tata Teleservices                    -1.5               27.6
 MTNL                                -0.01                3.5
 Reliance Communications                 0                0.2
 Telenor                             -36.2                  0
 
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in May were 983.9 million.
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density
of wireless subscribers, were 86.89 as of May 31. Mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 151.82 compared with 56.81 in
rural areas.
    * In May, 4.5 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 432 million, as of
end-May. There were 414.1 million broadband users through
mobile phones and dongles, while 17.9 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
22.5 million by end-May from 22.6 million at the end of
April.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.15 billion
phone users as of May 31, or a total tele-density of 88.62.
    * Reliance Communications shut down its consumer mobile
business late last year and has agreed to sell wireless
assets to Reliance Jio.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1OT25O
    * Bharti Airtel has acquired Telenor's India unit and
Tata Teleservices' consumer mobile business.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1MN3X3
    
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 (Compiled by Krishna V Kurup in Bengaluru; Editing by
Amrutha Gayathri)
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