Table: India's mobile phone customer base rises by 5.97 mln in January

Videocon Industries (India)

20/03/2019 11:19

March 20 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base
rose 0.51 percent, or a net 5.97 million, to 1.18 billion in
January, 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 January 31.
    
 COMPANY                     CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                   0.10            340.36
 Vodafone Idea                   -3.58           415.16
 Reliance Jio                    9.32            289.44
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam            0.98            115.33
 Reliance Communications        0.0006            0.023
 Tata Teleservices               -0.85            18.16
 MTNL                           -0.005            3.47
 
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in January were 1.18 billion
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density
of wireless subscribers, were 90.15 as of Jan 31. Mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 156.85 compared with 59.04 in
rural areas.
    * In January, 5.84 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 540.04 million, as of
end-January. There were 521.35 million broadband users
through mobile phones and dongles, while 18.27 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
21.79 million by end-January from 21.87 million at the end of
December.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.20 billion
phone users as of Jan 31, or a total tele-density of 91.82.
    
   Source text: http://bit.ly/2Y6GfKl 

 (Compiled by Harish Bhaskar in Bengaluru)
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