Indian GSM mobile operators added 8.97 million subscribers to their networks in April, taking total GSM subscribers to 297.7 million, according to data released by the Cellular Operators’ Association of India.
This was lower than a 10.8 million GSM users added in the previous month, mainly due to lower subscriber additions by state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam that added 1.04 million mobile customers in April, down from 2.5 million in March.
The data does not include Reliance Communications Ltd, India’s second-largest mobile operator, which reports figures separately.
Leading mobile operator Bharti Airtel added 2.81 million mobile users in April to have a total of 96.74 million, while third-ranked Vodafone Essar signed up 2.77 million mobile users to have a total of 71.54 million.
Reliance Communications, which had 72.67 million subscribers at end-March, expanded its GSM mobile services to all the service areas of the country in January, but the majority of its customers are still on rival CDMA technology.
Tata Teleservices, in which Japan’s NTT DoCoMo owns a 26 percent stake, also operates on CDMA and monthly additions are reported separately.
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