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Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released India’s ‘GSM Subscriber Figures for April 2012.
Bharti Airtel tops in the new subscriber additions, added a total of 2.01 million new GSM subscribers followed by IDEA Cellular added the 2nd highest number of new subscribers with 1.49 million in April. Bharti Airtel now has 183.29 million GSM customers with a 27.33% market share.
According to the data released by COAI total 6.50 million new GSM subscribers added with 0.98% increase from previous month taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 670.57 million at the end of April 2012.
Among the leading GSM Mobile Service Operators, Vodafone India added 0.82 million new customers, boosting its subscriber base 151.28 million. Uninor that lost licences in the SC’s 2G judgment, notched 1.12 million new customers. Its user base was at 42.55 million by April-end. AIRCEL added 1.01 million new customers and its subscriber base was at 63.59 million.
State run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) still did not submitted its monthly additions data to COAI.
Other Operators such as STel, Etisalat DB (Cheers Mobile) and Loop Telecom (except Loop Mobile -Mumbai) have announced shutting down of mobile services as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk and are now helping their users move to other operators through Mobile Number Portability (MNP).
Please note : COAI GSM Subscriber base does not include the Reliance Communications (Rcom) and Tata Docomo’s GSM subscriber Base (same not submitted to COAI). While Pure CDMA Operator MTS India (SSTL) announced that it has added 2,05,590 customers in the month of April 2012, taking its total customer base to 16,055,288.
bbb May 28, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Uninor added highest number of subs if compared to 13 operational circles. Uninor ROCKS.
KRIS May 27, 2012 at 7:55 pm
TRAI MONTHLY REPORT FOR MOBILE ADDITION IS A ORIGINAL REPORT
Mayur May 26, 2012 at 3:57 pm
@Upesh
Hi! Where do you live in Chandrapur city?
saraswathy May 26, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Even one dummy sim was not activated properly by Airtel.The indicator was changed to other number. i don’t know how this company is running as number 1. company.
Gowrishankar May 26, 2012 at 2:38 pm
BSNL already has a STV offering Night Calls on BSNL’s Local & STD numbers @ 5p/min for Rs. 35 with a validity of 30 days. And now BSNL has introduced a TRULY UNLIMITED NIGHT CALLING PACK offering Unlimited Local & STD On-net Calls between 11PM to 6 AM. The price of this STV is fixed at Rs. 59 and has a validity of 15 days.
And now for those who are not very heavy user, BSNL has introduced another Night Pack offering 300 Local & STD On Net Minutes between 11PM to 6 AM at a price of Rs. 29 with a validity of 30 days.
Gowrishankar May 26, 2012 at 2:37 pm
The last new from BSNL. New STV135 introduced is a Any Time Any Network Minute Pack offering 400 Local & STD Minutes at a monthly price of Rs. 135 with a validity of 30 days.
MRP in Rs — 135 Rs
Type of Voucher — 400 Min Local/STD Any-net call
Validity in days — 30 Days
Upesh May 26, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Lohit could you provide me with link from where you got the information for airtel voda and idea , i have surfed all website DOT and TRAI.
Gowrishankar May 26, 2012 at 1:07 pm
@HEMRAJ KUMAWAT Ya Brother.. You said Absolutely correct.. BSNL is always Best..!
HEMRAJ KUMAWAT May 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
these datas show only the no of sim cards sold by particular operator.30 to 40 percent sim cards are not being used as these were given either free or for low cost .many people buy free sim from pvt operators uses the free calls ,data uses and then throw them into dustbin. only BSNL CUSTOMER BASE IS TRUE as it follows the govt rules,original document varification etc…..so BSNL ROCKS
Lohit May 26, 2012 at 11:45 am
TRAI releases active subscriber base figures every month… according to latest results, approx 93% of idea sims are active, 91% of airtel sims are active, 88% of vodafone sims are active… coming to bsnl 57% of bsnl sims are active
KUNHIRAMAN KACHARA May 26, 2012 at 10:15 am
In India one man can have 10 or 20 SIM Connections ,that is why Airtel and Vodafone can able to provide 25 Lakhs SIM per every months , Sim has no cost ,
Upesh May 26, 2012 at 9:56 am
Subcriber base is not reliable most of us own many sim cards.airtel, idea and vodafone sold many sim by giving free data and free sms in last 3 years, but BSNL not doing such shitty act so BSNL can be consider as top in list with genuine data base.
Arun May 26, 2012 at 8:49 am
@Sanjay Bafna Got the information from COAI website – thanks!
R R Kumar May 26, 2012 at 6:18 am
Bsnl, reliance, airtel, aircel, tata – all are good and have made our life comfortable. Thank you all !
Manish Adhikari May 26, 2012 at 12:09 am
Airtel rockks if we talking abt VAS
Zeeshan May 25, 2012 at 10:11 pm
NO. RTI Act does not apply to private organizations. BSNL/MTNL will come under the ambit of RTI ACT.
@Arif
DEB May 25, 2012 at 9:33 pm
SANJAY SIR KINDLY PROVIDE THE LINK FROM WHICH WE CAN FIND THE CIRCLE WISE SUBSCRIBERS ADDITION STATISTICS….I COULD NOT FIND THE LIST OF CIRCLE WISE STATISTICS LIST…..
Arif May 25, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Can we find out how many connections are active on own documents using RTI Act. Any one did this?
Sanjay Bafna May 25, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Yes, We have circle wise or region wise breakup for Airtel and all other GSM operators and you can download it from COAI’s website too.
Arun May 25, 2012 at 6:49 pm
@Sanjay Bafna Do you have circle wise or region wise breakup for Airtel? Just curious.
Saurabh May 25, 2012 at 5:00 pm
It’s second consecutive month wen BSNL hasn’t submitted its data. Maybe they have lost large chunk of customers and don’t want to show it. Who cares? BSNL is just a piece of crap and costliest in Haryana. Idea, Vodafone rocks in network as both are operating in 900MHz band and lots of special offers by them and Aircel is best for economical services.
ved May 25, 2012 at 3:41 pm
For Reliance and other CDMA operators go to auspi.in/ n check…..
DB May 25, 2012 at 3:38 pm
@bharathkumara
@AMAR @ BHARATHKUM
- lets keep it simple : RELIANCE is a part of the CDMA OPERATORS Group (AUSPI) so they report CDMA+GSM base together. This is alo the case of TATA DOCOMO too.
In case of AIRTEL/IDEA/VODAFONE they are a part of the GSM OPERATORS Group (COAI) so they report GSM base there.
bharathkumara May 25, 2012 at 3:24 pm
reliance is dual-technology (cdma+gsm), the licence is only in cdma, cdma player can operate in gsm to.. thats y docomo and reliance are dual operator (both cdma and gsm) in cdma licence, that y it not related to COAI(gsm)
Amar May 25, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Why don’t Reliance provide der stats EVER???
Aniket May 25, 2012 at 2:45 pm
@Asit Paul
it is not necessary that airtel has got maximum customers in NE.
report is generated for india consumers not for NE
Airtel gives good network in other areas.
Asit Paul May 25, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Why people choose AirTel?
Its the worst network in NE.