Wireless subscriber base touches 563.7 million in India

TRAIAccording to the recent report published by TRAI (Telecom Authority of India), there was a huge increase in wireless subscriber in between January and February this year.

There were 545 million wireless subscribers in January and the number has become 563.73 million in February at a growth of 3%.

19.9 million new customers have been added in the month of January and 18.76 million addition were taken the service in the month of February. Now the tele-density has reached 48 per hundred.

So far as circle wise addition is concerned, 5.6 million subscribers were added in Circle A, 8 million subscribers were added in Circle B and 3.2 million subscribers were added in Circle C. Metros contributed 1.7 addition.

The number of Wireless subscribers was constant during the period with a teledensity of 3.14% as reported by TRAI. 16 out of hundred new subscriber were acquired by Vodafone Essar where as Tata Teleservices has acquired 15 out of hundred. Moreover, there are about 600 million subscribers in India including 18 million new subscribers in the month of February.