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Telecom user base rises to 92.20 cr in Jan: TRAI

New Delhi: The total number of telecom subscribers in the country rose marginally to 92.20 crore in January, on the back of increase in rural subscribers, sectoral regulator TRAI said on Wednesday.The overall user base

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: March 12, 2014 23:44 IST
Airtel and Vodafone enjoy 22.48 percent and 18.16 percent market share respectively.

Idea Cellular added 15.32 lakh users and its subscriber base at the end of January stood at 13.02 crore.

Reliance Communications added 4.06 lakh users to take its base to 11.76 crore in the reported period.

Aircel and Uninor added 15.32 lakh and 11.35 lakh new users respectively. Videocon also added 2.63 lakh subscribers.

State-run BSNL and MTNL, however, lost 15.75 lakh and 96,309 users respectively.

"Private operators hold 89.01 percent of the wireless subscriber market share where as BSNL and MTNL, the two PSU operators hold only 10.99 percent market share," Trai said.

The wireline subscriber base declined from 2.88 crore at the end of December, to 2.87 crore at the end of January.

Trai said that as per the reports received from 144 broadband service providers, there were 5.69 crore broadband subscribers in the country at the end of January.

"Top five broadband service providers constitute 82.57 percent market share of total broadband subscribers. They are BSNL (16.54 million), Bharti (11.49 million), Reliance (7.07 million), Idea (6.26 million) and Vodafone (5.63 million)," Trai added.
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