Tuesday, 18 December 2012
GSM operators lose over 9 million subscribers in November: COAI
Posted on 22:32 by Maria Scott
GSM operators have lost more than 9
million subscribers in November, bringing the subscribers base down to
663.78 million, reveals the data released by Cellular Operators
Association of India (COAI). At the end of October, subscriber base was
672.80 million.
Top operator Bharti Airtel lost 2.80 million subscribers to take its subscriber base to 183.61 million. Vodafone's
user base slumped to 2.38 million, while Idea Cellular lost 1.56
million users. Aircel lost 1.46 million users in November with its user
base slumping to 65.32 million at the end of November. Uninor lost 4,37,915 users, while Videocon lost 3,79,787 subscribers in November.
The COAI data reveal the state-run
operator BSNL could not add a single subscriber in the said month, and
its user base stood at 97.17 million subscribers (14.64 percent share).
MTNL's user base slumped to 5.12 million at the end of November 2012,
losing 741 users.
GSM operators have continued to lose
subscribers over the past few months. One of the reasons for the slump
is believed to be de-activations of inactive SIMs. Operators have been
disconnecting the numbers inactive for 60 days. It's notable COAI data
does not include stats from operators such as Reliance, Tata and MTS.
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India's telecom subscriber base registered a 2.5 million slump,
at the month of October 2012. By October, the subscriber base stood
935.18 million, as against 937.70 million at the end of the month of
September 2012.
“The number of telephone subscribers in
India decreased to 935.18 million at the end of October, 2012 from
937.70 million at the end of September 2012, thereby registering a
monthly growth rate of - 0.27%," said the Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India (TRAI), in a statement. TRAI also stated that the decline was
mostly due to the “large scale disconnection by some of the service
providers”.
Check out TRAI's Telecom Subscription Data as on 31st October 2012 here.
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/GSM-operators-lose-over-9-million-subscribers_11813.html
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/GSM-operators-lose-over-9-million-subscribers_11813.html
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