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Bharti Airtel has regained its leadership position in April in terms of monthly subscriber addition.
Bharti Airtel has regained its leadership position in April in terms of monthly subscriber addition.
In the previous month, Vodafone Essar had surpassed Bharti in subscriber addition. In March, Vodafone had grown its subscriber base by 2.84 million and Bharti by 2.80 million. However in April, Bharti is up by 2.81 million and Vodafone by 2.77 million.
But, the total GSM subscriber addition (excluding Reliance) was 8.93 million in April, much lower than the record growth of 10.85 million in the previous month, perhaps indicating a slowdown.
The total number of GSM mobile subscribers is set to touch the 300-million mark soon. As of end of April, the GSM user base is at 297.7 million, according to the data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Wednesday. COAI represents the GSM companies like Bharti, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Aircel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).
GSM subscriber addition for state-owned BSNL is much lower than other pan-India telcos in April.
BSNL (operating in 21 circles) added 1.03 million GSM subscribers in the month against 2.77 million in Vodafone (all 23 circles), 2.81 million in Bharti (all 23 circles), 1.11 million in Idea Cellular (15 circles) and 1.10 million in Aircel (17 circles).
Even if the GSM subscriber growth in the other state-owned telco, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) that operates in Delhi and Mumbai, is clubbed with that of BSNL, the private operators are ahead. MTNL grew its GSM base by 45,553 in April. Taken together, BSNL and MTNL added 1.08 million GSM users in April.
Bharti has the largest marketshare among the GSM (global systems for mobile communications) players with 96.7 million mobile subscribers. In the second place is Vodafone with 71.5 million subscribers. While Bharti commands a market share of 32.49% in the GSM space, Vodafone has 24.03%.
Among other GSM telcos, BSNL has the third largest market share of 16.03% with 47.7 million users, followed by Idea at 14.83% and 44.1 million users, and Aircel at 6.58% and 19.5 million users.
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