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India’s National Telecom back bone and pan India 3G mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has added a total of 3.19 million GSM subscribers which is the highest number of new mobile subscribers additions in the month of December 2010. BSNL’s GSM subscriber base now reached 81.38 million, as per the COAI data.
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has released the GSM subscriber base for December 2010 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at an average growth rate. The number of new GSM subscribers being added in December month 17.07 million at a monthly growth rate of 3.25% taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 542.96 million.
Among the GSM Mobile Service Operators, Vodafone Essar notched up 3.09 million new subscribers during the month, taking its total base to 124.25 million. While market leader and largest GSM operator Bharti Airtel added up 3.10 million new users in December-2010, taking its total subscriber base to 152.49 million.
Idea Cellular added 2.95 million new customers, boosting its subscriber base to 81.77 million, while Aircel increased its base by over 1.42 million customers to take its subscriber base to 50.16. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) added 24,731 new users during the month, boosting its total base to 5.11 million at the end of December, 2010.
Uninor, one of the youngest GSM operators in India has added 2.3mn GSM subscriber while Videocon added 5,75,800 new subscribers and STel managed just 2,47,068 new subscribers from 5 circles. Etisalat DB/Cheers Mobile 1,32,847 added subscribers in 13 circles.
| GSM Operator | Total Subscriber Base(December 2010 | Market Share |
| Bharti Airtel | 152,495,219 | 29.09% |
| Vodafone Essar | 124,255,120 | 22.88% |
| IDEA Cellular | 81,778,655 | 15.06% |
| BSNL | 81,388,098 | 14.99% |
| Aircel | 50,168,811 | 9.24% |
| Uninor | 18,510,049 | 3.41% |
| Videocon | 7,319,603 | 1.35% |
| MTNL | 5,115,245 | 0.94% |
| Loop Mobile | 3,044,579 | 0.56% |
| STel | 2,315,524 | 0.43% |
| Etisalat DB (Cheer Mobile) | 2,64,899 | 0.05% |
| All India | 542,967,008 | 100% |
Please note : COAI GSM Subscriber base does not include the Reliance GSM base and Tata Docomo subscriber Base (same not submitted to COAI).
AVISEK February 24, 2011 at 10:07 am
i use bsnl 2g sim and getting high speed just changing the GSM MODE TO UMTS MODE.I think no other operator gives this type facility.Everybody should stay with BSNL.
Debopratim Roy January 23, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Thats why BSNL name stands tall.Even after 7 and half years I am with BSNL Cellone.My landline connection is BSNL since 1960(earstwhile it was DOT).So many came and gone still BSNL lives long! Jai Ho.The contribution of Calcutta Telephones in 3.19 lakh addition must be mere handful. They should try to live up to the expectation of BSNL.However their 2G/3G network is now more stronger than BSNL West Bengal Telecom for sure..Go BSNL Go
Nishant January 21, 2011 at 3:16 pm
THERE IS NO COMPETITOR FOR BSNL IN MARKET….IN RESPECT OF DATA SPEED……TRY IT…..BSNL 3G SERVICE…
Debjyoti Roy January 20, 2011 at 11:48 am
congrats BSNL.it’s service good.but idea also very good.
Sharath January 20, 2011 at 10:05 am
Eventhough I am little disappointed with UNINOR numbers, they are slowly catching up with AIRCEL..They may slowly overtake AIRCEL…
Sumit Baran January 20, 2011 at 12:07 am
BSNL is the best for Broadband, 3G, GSM, GPRS. Please use this service. I love BSNL. I use this service from last 9 years, Land line with Broadband, GSM, 3G. Excellent service.
Rudradeep Biswas January 19, 2011 at 4:08 pm
@rohan
at my place Uninor sim @ Rs 60 with talktime Rs 1350 – no mistake its d offer!
Vodafone/airtel sim also free, talktime Rs 240 (150 onnet, 90 offnet for 3 months!)
rohan January 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Airtel, voda sim free and talktime rs 150. Still no takers
ashi January 19, 2011 at 3:10 pm
MNP MESABSE ZYADA LOSS BSNL NE HONAHAI COZ OF SARKARI BABUS.
AB TO JAGGO
Abhijit January 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Congrats BSNL…Now BSNL will cross Idea subscriber base mark very soon.. And I think also BSNL will cross Vodafone subscriber base mark in coming months as now MNP is almost arrived and BSNL has advantage of 3G network Nation wide Pan India…
Keshav Jha January 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
BSNL ke itne addition tab hin jab uska SIM+FRC free nahin hota. Airtel, Voda etc ka tab hai jab uska SIM sabji mandi mein kilo ke bhav se bikta hai. Bahut jagah to bikta bhi nahin, bantata hai.
Swapnil January 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Everything is fair in love & war
Mayur January 19, 2011 at 1:35 pm
congrats bsnl…keep going on…make ur network congested free and have a aggresive marketing policy…plz make plans all calls@49p/min and 1p/sec for lifetime…
sathish January 19, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Note:
Chennai & Tamil Nadu alone, BSNL added 7,92,957 new subscribers – Dec’2010 out of 31,94,046 (BSNL’s Total new subscriber of Dec’2010)
sunil kushwaha January 19, 2011 at 1:10 pm
@vishal
i hv tested relianc 3g n surprise to see the latency only 55ms
sunil kushwaha January 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm
@Tarun PK
elaborate plz, m not so techy
kochikkaran January 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I heard that motorola glam will be launched in india next week….TT could u do a review of CDMA smart phones in india which can be used with other CDMA operators (OMH)… i like ur article abt CDMA technology… good researched article it was…
kochikkaran January 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I am using BSNL as my first sim and i will change my second sim to MTS once the motorola touchscreen dual sim (GSM + CDMA) android 3G phone called Motorola Glam has been launched in india… i have heard the good quality of MTS in kerala and i will use 3g using the BSNL sim which i am pretty happy with… i will use MTS for calling as it is having good call rates and coverage…
Sanjay Bafna January 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Kindly read the “Note” at the end of the news
Mane January 19, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Why reliance and docomo are not in list ?
Tarun PK January 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Give a try to Open DNS things should work well if you are via BSNL Broadband.
Mamun January 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Sorry..i haven’t seen total article..
Santu Sovan Mandal January 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Here in kolkata they have set up extensive 3g bts so that one can get 3g service every nook & corner in the city. I’m happy with the way I’ve seen visible improvement of their 2g & 3g network. But they really have to work hard on west bengal sector where bsnl really sucks.
Mamun January 19, 2011 at 12:36 pm
WHERE IS RELIANCE?
Steve January 19, 2011 at 12:34 pm
please BSNL please solve this problem
mumBHAI January 19, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Wow! thanx Sanjay..Awating for the good news on TT!
vishal January 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Right. BSNL added more subscribers in the month of December. BSNL decreased 3g price at affordable rate and it attracted lots of customers by offering good speed and good schemes in previous month. BSNL is still facing out of stocks of 3g modems in major cities. Customers have suffered a lot with old infrastructure of INDIA internet results into slow internet speed since 3g launched. Customers attacked on 3g to gain more downloads.
vishal January 19, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Browsing speed is slow because of high latency. So, it will require more time to connect to website server to transmit the data but in downloading, once you are connected to server. So, There will be constant data transmission is possible with some variation in speed due to variation in connection time. That is the big problem with recent 3g network.
PD January 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm
At least they could follow BSNL line ?
PD January 19, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Correction in the earlier postings : Even after getting preferential approval for 3g services, their presence in this field is far from satisfactory !
Sanjay Bafna January 19, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Hopefully with in few days
will keep u posted soon
Amar January 19, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Congrats to BSNL.
But Please solve the DNS (Browsing) issue ASAP. Browsing speed is too slow. But downloading speed is awesome.
PD January 19, 2011 at 12:11 pm
BSNL can definitely make it, if the men at top inclusive ministers, really give the right kind of attention in all aspects. They are running the show with age old systems (that are technically obsolete) with which can inno way compete with the enterprises private players !This miserable failure has an eye opener – Even after getting preferential approval for 3g services, their presence in this girlf is far from satisfactory !
mumBHAI January 19, 2011 at 12:11 pm
@Sanjay Bafna – Want to know if MTNL Mumbai is planin to slash its National Roaming Tariffs in the near future?
mumBHAI January 19, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Awesome BSNL!! Very Strong & Extensive 2G/3G Network pan India & very Economical Tariffs!
Benny January 19, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Its bcos BSNL gave away free sim card with free FRC for all landline users and latter for anyone who want free calls to one land line number… pyari jodi (En Nanban Super in TN). It was earlier 20 Rs for sim and 46 rs for FRC. But in Dec BSNL made both free