By IANS
New Delhi : While the country’s leading telecom players are at loggerheads over grabbing radio waves, India added a whopping 5.71 million subscribers under the GSM segment of mobile telephony in October.
Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest mobile service operator, added 2.03 million new users, taking its number of subscribers to 50.90 million as on Oct 31 and reaching a market share of 31.88 percent, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a release.
Vodafone-Essar, formerly Hutch-Essar, added 1.52 million new users, which pushed its total subscriber base to 37.18 million. It had a market share of 23.28 percent.
State-run telecom firms Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) added 727,855 and 53,739 new users, respectively during the period.
Birla Group’s Idea Cellular reported 750,108 new additions last month and a total number of users at 1.94 million.
The Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications, primarily a CDMA player, registered a total subscriber base of 5.03 million users with a 3.15 percent market share. It, however, did not announce its monthly additions.