The total telecom subscriber base in the country has reached 1.05 billion, with Bharti Airtel leading the GSM subscriber addition for the month of February 2016.
About 9 million subscribers were added during the month. Top operator Bharti Airtel added 2.9 million new users, followed by Vodafone (2.03 million) and Idea Cellular (1.46 million users) in February.
Reliance Communications and Aircel added 1.02 million and 0.62 million subscribers, respectively. State-run telecom service provider, BSNL added 1.25 million subscribers in February. However, Videocon Telecom lost 17,917 subscribers during the period and its base decreased to 67.27 lakh.
| S. No. | Name of Operator | Telephone Connections (in Million) | ||||
| Wired Line | Wireless | Grand Total | ||||
| WLL | GSM | Total | ||||
| 1 | BSNL | 14.78 | 1.42 | 83.87 | 85.29 | 100.07 |
| 2 | Bharti Airtel | 3.64 | 248.69 | 248.69 | 252.33 | |
| 3 | RCom | 1.17 | 77.64 | 24.27 | 101.91 | 103.07 |
| 4 | Vodafone Essar | 0.04 | 196.75 | 196.75 | 196.79 | |
| 5 | Tata Indicom | 1.71 | 60.28 | 60.28 | 61.99 | |
| 6 | Idea | 174.63 | 174.63 | 174.63 | ||
| 7 | Aircel | 86.68 | 86.68 | 86.68 | ||
| 8 | MTNL | 3.51 | 0.13 | 3.55 | 3.67 | 7.18 |
| 9 | Loop Mobile | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| 10 | Quadrant Televentures | 0.25 | 3.13 | 3.13 | 3.38 | |
| 11 | Sistema Shyam | 0.06 | 7.74 | 7.74 | 7.80 | |
| 12 | Uninor | 51.68 | 51.68 | 51.68 | ||
| 13 | Videocon | 6.73 | 6.73 | 6.73 | ||
| Total | 25.17 | 150.33 | 876.83 | 1,027.17 | 1,052.33 | |
Bharti Airtel now has 248.69 million customers, followed by Vodafone at 196.74 million subscribers and Idea at 174.62 million. BSNL was at sixth position and has 85.29 million subscribers behind Reliance Communications and Aircel with 101.91 million and 86.68 million subscribers. respectively.
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