Table: India's mobile phone customer base rises 9.85 mln in Aug

Videocon Industries (India)

24/10/2018 14:04

Oct 24 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base rose
0.85 percent, or a net 9.85 million, to 1.17 billion in August,
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 August 31.
    
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                    1.0             345.9
 Vodafone India                   1.1             224.5
 Idea Cellular                   -3.4             217.2
 Reliance Jio                    12.2             239.2
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam             0.2             113.6
 Reliance Communications        -0.001            0.04
 Tata Teleservices               -1.3             23.0
 MTNL                            -0.01             3.5
 
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in August were 1.01 billion
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of
wireless subscribers, were 89.41, as of Aug 31. Mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 156.48 compared with 58.25 in
rural areas.
    * In August, 4.73 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 463.66 million, as of
end-August. There were 445.64 million broadband users through
mobile phones and dongles, while 18.02 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
22.19 million by end-August from 22.27 million at the end of
July.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.19 billion phone
users, as of Aug. 31, or a total tele-density of 91.11.
    * 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
    * Idea Cellular Ltd  IDEA.NS  and Vodafone Plc  VOD.L 
completed the merger of their India operations on Aug
31. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N1VM2LQ
    
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 (Compiled by Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru)
 ((Mekhla.Raina@thomsonreuters.com ; +91-80-6749-1775)))