Interesting Facts About Indian Telecom

TRAI published an interesting press release about the status of Indian telecom industry as on April 2010: Total Telephone subscriber base reaches 638.05 Million

o Wireless subscription reaches 601.22 Million

o Wireline subscription declines to 36.83

• 16.90 Million new additions in wireless
• Overall Tele-density reaches 54.10
• Broadband subscription is 9 million

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 638.05 Million at the end of April-2010 from 621.28 Million in March-2010, thereby registering a growth rate of 2.70%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 54.10. Wireless subscriber base increased from 584.32 Million in March-2010 to 601.22 Million at the end of April-2010 registering a growth of 2.89%. Wireless Teledensity stands at 50.98. Bharti AirTel took a lead in the numbers as Service Provider's net share in total additions in April 2010 with 17.75 percent. AirTel is followed by Vodafone, Reliance and Tata with 17.15%, 16.17 & 11.49% share respectively. However, with overall market share as on April 30, 2010 the top players are AirTel ( 21.73% ), Reliance (17.49%), Vodafone (17.26%), BSNL (11.75%). Most amazingly, people aren't adding more wirelines and seems like landine is now giving a way to mobiles. Wireline subscriber base declined from 36.96 Million in March-2010 to 36.83 Million at the end of April-2010. BSNL/MTNL, two PSU operators hold 84.64% of the Wireline market share.