India’s largest Mobile Service operator Bharti airtel has added a total of 2.1 million GSM subscribers which are the highest number of new mobile subscriber additions followed by Vodafone Essar which has added 2.09 million new subscribers in June 2011. Airtel’s GSM subscriber base now reached 169 million, according to the COAI data.
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the GSM subscriber base for June 2011, the new additions continue at a bit less growth rates compare to previous months. The total 8.5 million new GSM subscribers being added in the June 2011 at a monthly growth rate of 1.45% taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 598.7 million.
Among the GSM Mobile Service Operators, Vodafone Essar added 2.09 million new customers, boosting its subscriber base 141.5 million. IDEA Cellular notched up 1.35 million new subscribers during the month, taking its total base to 95.1 million. While India’s national telecom backbone and Pan India 3G Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added up 0.84 million new users in June-2011, taking its total subscriber base to 88.4 million.
Aircel increased its base by over 9 lakh customers to take its subscriber base to 57.9 million. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) added just 1597 new users during the month, boosting its total base to 5.23 million at the end of June, 2011.
Uninor,has added 9 lakh GSM subscriber while Videocon managed 75,688 subscribers and STel added 1,51,470 new subscribers from five circles. Etisalat DB/Cheers Mobile added just 59,237 subscribers in 15 circles.
| GSM Operator | Total Subscriber Base – June 2011 | Market Share |
| Bharti Airtel | 169,186,247 | 28.26% |
| Vodafone Essar | 141,519,840 | 23.63% |
| IDEA Cellular | 95,108,818 | 15.88% |
| BSNL | 88,461,492 | 14.77% |
| Aircel | 57,980,752 | 9.68% |
| Uninor | 26,330,211 | 4.40% |
| Videocon | 7,129,886 | 1.19% |
| MTNL | 5,236,171 | 0.87% |
| Loop Mobile | 3,150,308 | 0.53% |
| STel | 3,317,414 | 0.55% |
| Etisalat DB (Cheer Mobile) | 1,358,535 | 0.23% |
| All India (excluding Reliance and Tata) | 598,779,674 | 100% |
Please note : COAI GSM Subscriber base does not include the Reliance GSM base and Tata Docomo subscriber Base (same not submitted to COAI).
pradeep July 29, 2011 at 1:14 pm
up west
Dinamani July 27, 2011 at 8:59 pm
No Uninor here, I thought it was some womens under garments..Ads after looking there color..
Saurabh gupta July 18, 2011 at 3:37 pm
yaar i hav no friend in UP east who is using uninor so i cant say about that but since east has more then 45 lakh uninor customer means slightly ahead of west so it might be good there also but for west is very good i knw as my sister is using it and they hav agreement with idea for tower sharing and in delhi uninor works on idea network as it dont have spectrum in delhi
Dhananjay July 18, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Where is TATA DOCOMO ?
Raghu July 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm
@Saurabh gupta
ok what abt UP East .
Arjun Chandrashekar July 18, 2011 at 11:44 am
@Raghu
I Don’t Have any Idea About Uninor Coverage Expansion But Definitely Coverage Will Expand in 4/5 Years
Saurabh gupta July 18, 2011 at 11:36 am
in UP west it has excellet coverage and more then 85lakh subscribers in UP(both circles) exce
Raghu July 18, 2011 at 11:15 am
@Arjun Chandrashekar
yes coverage is worst but call clarity is clear even if we get one signal thats the important thing very less call drops. after they invest 6500 crores let us see how the network improves in all the states where Uninor is present.
rajiev July 18, 2011 at 7:24 am
airtel lead, idea lead vodafone again airtel lead next month idea lead!
Arjun Chandrashekar July 18, 2011 at 1:29 am
@Raghu
Well Uninor Has Overtook Aircel in MH. Eventhough Uninor Coverage is Worst, Service is Simply Superb
Raghu July 17, 2011 at 11:16 pm
@Amit.G
yes i heard that they overtook one of the competitior it may be Aircel in MH i suppose.then karnataka is not included i think
Amit.G July 17, 2011 at 5:42 pm
@Raghu
No buddy it is not mentioned but UP, AP, MH,WB are included in 8 circles as mr brekke has mentioned that up n ap are the big markets for uninor and in WB They have overtook one of the competitor and mh circle is also adding more customers
Raghu July 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm
@Amit.g
any idea as to which 8 circles they are as Uninor operates in 13 circles. does it include AP,TN,Karnataka in the 8 circles u mentioned?
Raghu July 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm
@Amit.G
thats great news. so we can expect some improvement in the network in the next 6 months or so after the SC order.
Amit.G July 17, 2011 at 2:54 pm
NEWS: UNINOR HAS WRITTEN LETTER TO DOT REQUESTING TO ALLOT ADDITIONAL 1.8Mhz SPECTRUM IN ITS EXISTING 8 CIRCLES AS IT HAS CROSSED THE REQUIRED CRITERIA. NOW SUPREME COURT HAS ORDERED TELENOR TO GO AHEAD WITH RIGHTS ISSUE. SO NOW UNINOR WILL INVEST 6500 CRORES IN NETWORK EXPANSION.
selvam July 17, 2011 at 1:27 pm
@Ajay i accept ..but this only restricting the fake &dummy activations in BSNL..SECURITY which is the need of hour in INDIA..
Ajay July 17, 2011 at 10:15 am
Its my personal view…
Ajay July 17, 2011 at 10:13 am
Everywhere one can buy airtel and vodafone sims in any corner of the city or street or village. But to get bsnl sims one has to go to distributers or telemart. Which is one or two per circle… This is the reason why bsnl is lagging behind.
Husain July 17, 2011 at 8:20 am
Don’t know about the June 2011 but in the month of May, Reliance Mobile added 2.5 million subscribers and was leading among all. So I guess in the month of June also it would have added the maximum but there datas are released later as its dual technology service provider i.e. CDMA & GSM. Same with Tata, they also release this datas later may be only for this reason.
selvam July 16, 2011 at 10:05 pm
@tejas ya after this month there will be some consistant figures …bcoz the persons had sour experience with new operator after MNP will turn around and 2G effect will be there …since the case is in full swing..even there is some pressure on the distributors of the cos to create fake activations which will be reduced since the margins and schemes were reduced..let us see..atlast the genuine operator will b identified by the consumers in long run ..
Shashank July 16, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Yeah, even i would love to know this, what is the subcriber base of TATA DOCOMO and Reliance GSM, if TelecomTalk could find this out… tab toh manana padega ap logo ko
… Plz find it out!
tejas July 16, 2011 at 2:44 pm
it seems as if the mad rush for new connections has gone down…as there are no new offers being given by the operators…it seems to be settling down. also mnp is playing its role, no need to buy new sims just switch over with the same no. airtel and vodafone are very consistent in terms of growth and revenue. the rest are fighting for survival. even idea isnt consistent.
Saurabh gupta July 16, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Telecomtalk is there any way to know the addition and subscriber base of RGSM and TATA DOCOMO