Bharti Airtel slips to third spot in new user additions in Oct

20 Nov 2009 Evaluate

The largest telecom operator in India Bharti Airtel has slipped to third position in terms of monthly additions, according to figures released by Auspi and COAI. Bharti Airtel in October added about 2.7 million new users, lower than 2.9 million added by Vodafone Essar and over 3.8 million added by Tata Teleservices.

All the mobile operators in the country (GSM and CDMA) have added over 16 million new subscribers in the month of October. The total number of GSM users in the country has now risen to 482 million.

While Vodafone Essar led the additions in October in the GSM space, Tata Teleservices has topped the October additions recorded in both GSM and CDMA segment. Vodafone Essar and Tata Teleservices now have a subscriber base of 85.8 million and 50 million respectively. However, Bharti Airtel is still the leader in the segment with 113.2 million users in its network. Idea Cellular added 1.9 million new users in October.

Aircel, which is expanding its operations across the country in a bid to become a pan India operator, has added over 2 million new users in October, higher than 1.3 million added last month. The operator’s total subscriber base grew to 27.7 million. Reliance Communications, a CDMA operator which recently made a foray in the GSM space, added 2.1 million new users in October. The operator’s total subscriber base now stands at 87.7 million. crackcrack

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