India adds six million GSM mobile phone users in February -Business

India adds six million GSM mobile phone users in February -Business

New Delhi: India added six million GSM mobile subscribers in February to reach 184.67 million, industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said Monday.This, however, excludes the number of users added by Reliance Communications, which is mainly a CDMA major, a rival technology to GSM.
Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile phone service firm, added 2.25 million subscribers, taking its total base to 59.67 million and market share to 32.31 percent. Vodafone-Essar, promoted by British telecom giant Vodafone, registered 42.55 million subscribers by adding 1.41 million new users in February against the preceding month's 1.28 million. Aditya-Birla Group's Idea Cellular added 918,871 users last month, and as of Feb 29 had a total customer base of 22.87 million. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added 824,284 new users taking its total subscriber base to 34.57 million and a market share of 18.72 percent, COAI said.