Cellular subscriber base at 28.19 million in December
By Our Economy Bureau | 07 Jan 2004
New Delhi: The cellular subscriber base in the second month of the unified access service licence regime has 1.69 million additions in December 2003 with the total number of mobile customers crossing 28.19 million across the country.
As per the latest statistics released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and the Association of Basic Telecom Operators (ABTO), while the aggregate GSM cellular subscriber base has been placed at 21.99 million, the CDMA subscriber figure (excluding BSNL and MTNL) is lower at 6.19 million.
As
many as 12.71 lakh additions took place in the GSM segment
while 4.2 lakh new subscribers joined the CDMA bandwagon
during the month.
At the individual operator level across the technology platforms, Reliance Infocomm had a 62.46 lakh subscriber base (55.71 lakh in CDMA and 6.75 lakh in GSM) followed by Bharti with 55.01 lakh (GSM), BSNL 47.70 lakh (GSM), Hutch 41.16 lakh (GSM) and Idea Cellular 22.41 lakh (GSM).
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