Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has released the GSM subscriber base for November 2009 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at a higher rate. There has been highest growth rate registered due to “Per second Billing” adopted by most all GSM operators in last month. The number of new GSM subscribers being added in November month 11.08 million as compared to 10.76 million subscribers added in October. The additions were at a monthly growth rate of 3.12%.
Among the GSM Mobile Service Operators, Vodafone Essar added 2.7mn new users in November, taking its total base to 88.60mn while market leader and largest GSM operator Bharti Airtel saw its total base rise by 2.8mn to 116.01mn. Idea Cellular added 2.55mn new customers, boosting its subscriber base to 55.18mn, while Aircel increased its base by over 1.6mn to 29.3mn.
BSNL added 1.02mn new customers, taking its reach to 55.1mn. Loop Mobile added 50,303 new subscribers, taking its total to 2.59mn. MTNL added 73,109 new customers, boosting its total base to 4.58mn.
In terms of growth rate Aircel registered the highest growth of 5.79% with 1.6 million subscribers while Idea cellular also recorded its best performance in terms of monthly additions with 4.78% and 2.55 million new subscribers. Market leader Airtel managed a growth of 2.47% and 2.8 million new subscribers while BSNL recorded 2.27% growth but only 1.2 million additions. Vodafone Essar managed a growth of 3.24% with 2.78 million new additions. If we compare the circle-wise growth than Uttar Pradesh (East) and UP West telecom circle managed the highest growth rate of 5.2% and 5.16%respectively while Tamil Nadu which has the highest number of operators offering GSM-based mobile services recorded the highest additions of 2.89 million new subscriber additions in last month.
GSM Opertaor wise % market share – Nov’2009
| GSM operator | Total Sub Figures | % Market Share |
| Bharti Airtel |
116013951
|
31.63%
|
| Vodafone Essar |
88607607
|
24.16%
|
| BSNL |
55186967
|
15.05%
|
| IDEA Cellular |
55905178
|
15.24%
|
| Aircel |
29354370
|
8%
|
| Reliance Telecom |
14607614
|
3.98%
|
| MTNL |
4508251
|
1.23%
|
| Loop Mobile |
2595454
|
0.71
|
| All India
(Total) |
305952408
|
100.00% |
kaushik December 17, 2009 at 2:17 pm
BSNL should take this opportunity with both hands and try to get maximum share there by offering lower tariffs
Jigme Vanchook December 17, 2009 at 2:11 pm
most of all border area’s network covered by Airtel and BSNL only other service provider are just name sake or just for big cities only,now airtel black out its service as they had problem of payments with tower site owners so now bsnl is only option
Saptarshi Roy December 17, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Finally, Idea Cellular Limited overtakes BSNL in terms of cellular subscribers.
kaushik December 17, 2009 at 2:02 pm
@Jigme Vanchook
why only BSNL? why not other like Vodafone,RGSM,AIRCEL
Debopratim Roy December 17, 2009 at 1:21 pm
@Jigme Vanchook
Having largest customer base(Airtel) doesnt mean that they are the leading operator in India..Its the overall satitsfaction and qulaity of service matters which makes the mobile operator well accepted by people!! Thats why BSNL& MTNL stands tall even when others fail to deliver…Cause they serve wherever we dare to go!!
Jigme Vanchook December 17, 2009 at 12:49 pm
In Manipur airtel breakdown and no network or service from last 15 days,BSNL taking full advantage of the breakdown of Airtel service because only bsnl is option for mobility, BSNL has issued more than 500 prepaid SIM cards in three days.Airtel blacked out its service since past many weeks with some problems with its mobile tower paymenst which in turn gave numerous problems to the airtel customers.BSNL alone will be able to provide service in all border area of Maniipur like Ukhrul and all other area.
Ajit Kr Prasad December 17, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Tata Docomo gross added figure is not reflecting.
Samir Ghosh December 17, 2009 at 10:47 am
Government of India must put strict guidelines for new connection. Bulk of the new connection don’t stay on the network for more than a month.
So one should not be happy with the figures flashed by telecom companies. If government impose a tax of Rs 25 per connection, the numbers will falls substantially.
zareef December 17, 2009 at 9:19 am
IDEA selling pre active sim card free with 50T.T and call rate 4ops
with 100 daily sms…………
but public staying away from idear because its suck network & plans like they charge for delivery report callwaiting
in karnataka….
idea really suck…..
Fahad December 17, 2009 at 12:25 am
that z xactly wat i thnk that loop wl b takn ovr by a big company.lyk vodafone or airtel…same as wat hapnd to spice in Punjab…
vinay December 16, 2009 at 11:03 pm
mobile nos. growing @ 3%. but not necessarily the mobile customers growing at that rate. they may b growing @ 1% ! coz, majority of mobile customers trying to get 2 sim or even 3 sim cards for their cost reduction.
Hallabol December 16, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Idea have very good network in Kolkata at launch time. I am Barasat getting full tower even at ground floor of my home.But DOCOMO who have launched before Idea don’t have single tower at even 2nd floor of my home.Docomo is the worst service operator here.
Raj December 16, 2009 at 10:12 pm
THATS TRUE ZAREEF
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 10:04 pm
LOOP will die , not its customer
LOOP will be took over by a Big Company
zareef December 16, 2009 at 9:25 pm
nothing good by idea…….. its just because launch in some WB / J&K
Aircel soon on lll position
Rahul December 16, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Let see..who will be the winner…….I think Tata and reliance and doing very well…Airtel , Idea.Vodafone……..let seee..
zeeshan December 16, 2009 at 8:20 pm
how
@kaushik
Agnivo December 16, 2009 at 8:16 pm
@kaushik
Nobody will die, Loop (BPL) has been for ages! They are just not expanding, nothing more, nothing less…
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm
IDEA is the winner in this months addition of subscriber
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm
@Agnivo
who will die first ?
LOOP or AIRCEL
Agnivo December 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I think Aircel doesn’t deserve this… southern copycat with poorest network I have ever come across.
Fahad December 16, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Vodafn has faln short if cmpared 2 lst month and airtl has got more subscribers thn last month(oct)…
Still tata nd reliances results r awaitd…
Hp tata wl b th winr in nov. Also
atanu December 16, 2009 at 3:02 pm
@Prasath J,This is only gsm figures. then how u can see tata indicom(cdma). as per the tata docomo (gsm) they not update figure till date to COAI.
as you see reliance telecom (gsm) not reliance infocom(cdma). so u do not find out MTS, RCDMA, TATA INDICOM, SPICE now IDEA.
atanu December 16, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@Prasath J
Read carefully before commenting,
this is only GSM Subscribers. here see you Reliance Telecom not Reliance Infocom(CDMA). so how can u see tata indicom?
as per the tata docomo(GSM) if they not update their data base to COAI. How could you find?
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 2:54 pm
@SUMAN PATRA
SPICE become IDEA in Punjab and Karnataka
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@srija
yeh to hona hi tha
SUMAN PATRA December 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm
MTS AND SPICE ALSO MISSING……
SUMAN December 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm
@Prasath J
PITY YOU.
Prasath J December 16, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Good Joke… Out of the 100% market share, DOCOMO+Indicom is not even 0.01%
May be, this is the list of the total number of fake activations, so Docomo is missing and Reliance has very low subscriber figures…
Devraj December 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm
@Anuj
It is due to Idea’s 40 Paisa per minute plan
Devraj December 16, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Should be calculated including CDMA
Mithun December 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Airtel premi khush huaaa (mogmabo khush huaa)
Anuj December 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Airtel’s total base is now 116.01 Mn & not 106.01 Mn. Its mentioned correctly in chart but mistake is there in article.
BTW, I am impressed by Idea’s performance.
Mithun December 16, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Docomo feel shy to share to share GSM subscriber base so they did not disclose it
?)
kaushik December 16, 2009 at 1:49 pm
IDEA beats BSNL
Ram December 16, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Tota DOCOMO missing in the list