Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003 |
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Telecommunications Mobile subscriber base touches 16.30 million Our Bureau
New Delhi , Aug. 11 THE cellular subscriber base continues to be on the upswing again, with as many as 11.53 lakh additions in July, taking the total subscriber base to 16.30 million, according the latest statistics released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). Among the operators, Bharti remains at the top, having a subscriber base of 40.36 lakh, followed by BSNL, which has managed to rope in 34.93 lakh subscribers. Bharti is also the single largest operator in any one single circle, having bagged over 11.13 lakh customers in Delhi. BSNL continues to show a slower growth, with net additions for the last three months having come down steeply from nearly seven lakh in March to four lakh in April, three lakh in May and 2.52 lakh in June and 2.99 lakh in July. The COAI statistics said that Circle A has, for the third month running, surpassed the four metros in terms of highest mobile penetration. While it has a combined subscriber base of 527.09 lakh, the metros have 55.23 lakh and Circle B has 43.91 lakh. Circle C continues to be far behind with only 6.78 lakh subscribers.
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