India's mobile phone customer base falls 2.8 million in September, says TRAI

NEW DELHI: India's mobile phone customer base in September fell 0.24 percent, or a net 2.80 million, to 1.18 billion, data released by the country's telecoms regulator (TRAI) 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 September 30.
COMPANY CHANGE (MLN) TOTAL USERS (MLN)
-Bharti Airtel 1 282
-Vodafone India - 0.7 207.4
-Idea Cellular - 0.9 190.2
-Reliance Jio 5.9 138.6
-Bharat Sanchar Nigam 0.6 105.8
-Aircel - 0.4 88.8
-Reliance Communications - 5.1 72.2
-Telenor -0.9 46 Tata Teleservices -2.1 44.9
-Sistema Shyam TeleServices - 0.2 3.5
-MTNL - 0.005 3.6
NOTE: Active mobile subscribers in September were 1.02 billion. Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of wireless subscribers, were 91.56 as of Sept 30. Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 168.20 compared with 56.31 in rural areas.

 

 

In September, 5.49 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 324.9 million, as of end-September. There were 306.4 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 23.7 million by end-September from 23.8 million at the end of August. Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.21 billion phone users as of Sept 30, or a total tele-density of 93.40.