GSM customer base crosses 165mn

December 11th, 2007

The operators add 5.82mn new subscribers in November Vs 5.71mn new users added in October. Bharti Airtel adds 2.05mn new users taking its total to 52.96mn

The country’s GSM service providers added 5.82mn new subscribers in November as against 5.71mn new users added in October, data released by the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) shows.

With this, their total subscriber base now stands at 165.83mn, up 3.6% from October. At the end of November last year, GSM operators had a total subscriber base of 100.79mn, the COAI data reveals.

Bharti Airtel - the biggest GSM operator - added 2.05mn new users last month, taking its total to 52.96mn while Vodafone Essar saw net additions of 1.38mn, boosting its overall customer base to 38.56mn.

Idea Cellular added more than 8 lakh new subscribers, taking its total to 20.22mn while Aircel witnessed net additions of 501,588, lifting its total to 9.02mn. Source: indiainfoline