The Hindu Business Line : Cellular operators add 6.6 m users in Oct

Indian telecom operators have once again added the highest number of new cellular users in the world in a single month in October with nearly 6.6 million new subscribers.

India had the highest number of additions in August also beating China, which added 5.19 million new cellular users in the same month. Other countries where cellular growth is taking place at a fast pace include Russia, Brazil and the Philippines.

Mr T.V. Ramachandran, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India, stated that this explosive growth in subscriber numbers was a direct result of the forward looking policies of the Government, the enabling regulatory structure and the commitment of the industry to deliver increased access to subscribers with ever improving affordability.

While GSM operators added 4.7 million users in October, the CDMA operators accounted for 1.9 million new users. This takes the total mobile base in the country to about 130 million.

As per global analysts Wireless Intelligence, the last half billion cellular subscribers had come in a record time of 12 months and has been mainly added in the very high-growth emerging markets of China, India and Russia.

According to Wireless Intelligence, the global mobile industry has been growing at around 40 million subscribers per month, which is the highest volume of growth that the market has ever seen. The share of the Asia-Pacific region in this growth is 41 per cent, with India and China alone accounting for 25 per cent of the total subscriber growth worldwide over the last year.

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