India’s GSM operators lost 9.38 million subscribers in November, taking the total subscriber base to 663.78 million, with none of the service providers adding a single user during the month the fall of 1.34 per cent from the October 2012, was attributed to the disconnection by operators.
For the last couple of months, telecom companies have been steadily losing customers following disconnection of inactive subscribers. The companies were disconnecting users who were inactive for more than 60 days from their networks. The top three operators Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular – lost nearly 6.74 million users in November, according to the data released Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
Airtel lost 2.80 million users, depleting its total to 183.61 million as of November 30, 2012, even though it maintained its leadership position with a 27.66 per cent market share. Vodafone India lost 2.38 million users during the month under review, and posted a total of 150.77 million users, while it maintained its second-rung slot with a 22.71 per cent market share. Idea Cellular, lost 1.56 million users taking its total subscriber base to 114.14 million. The country’s fourth largest operator had a market share of 17.20 per cent.
Aircel lost 1.46 million users, Uninor 4.37 lakh and Videocon 3.8 million users in November. In October, the operators added about 2.40 lakh users, arresting a two-month fall and increasing the total subscriber to 671.91 million.
In October, COAI members added 2.40 lakh subscribers taking the total subscriber base to 671.91 million users.
Jignesh Talsania January 3, 2013 at 11:50 am
Where is Reliance GSM ??????????
Where is Tata Docomo GSM ??????????
koteswararao.Nerella December 22, 2012 at 9:11 am
It is good that the telecom operators have atleast now decided to disconnect inactive subscribers since keeping them will boost the figures but of no use for the company.People take more than one connection just for fun and show.Any way it is a GOOD DECISION.
amit December 21, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Where is Reliance GSM?Does it not have any % share in GSM market…………….??????????
nagaraju December 20, 2012 at 9:03 pm
please update me with all kinds of cellular information’s, like GSMoperating services, cellular network providers problems and much more.
thanking you
Y.Nagaraju
707jan December 20, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Wat a blunder have u made…
How can u show the market share without including Tata and Reliance??
Arora December 20, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Earlier we were used to get the Data of “Sim Card holders”,
Now Due to Trai’s Strict norms We are getting Fair picture of Active Subscribers.
Cam December 20, 2012 at 3:11 pm
where is MTS??
MTS did not remove any customers!!!
Guru December 20, 2012 at 7:36 pm
No Reliance And Tata Docomo too
cdma December 20, 2012 at 8:20 pm
MTS is a CDMA provider
sunny December 20, 2012 at 1:49 pm
but still BSNL added around 5 lakh customer in nov 12.
sand December 20, 2012 at 1:36 pm
With every operator keeping the prices and offers nearly the same theres very little need to port for the existing customers and hence a temporary stagnation was bound to be seen.