In April, the cellular subscriber base of Bharti touched 3.88 crore with additions of 17.51 lakh users, followed by BSNL at 2.77 crore with a market share of 22.10 per cent and additions of 3.26 lakh subscribers.
Hutch-Essar has 2.77 crore subscribers, taking its market share to 22.06 per cent and Idea with a market share of 11.60 per cent has 1.45 crore subscribers in April.
Hutch-Essar added 12.61 lakh subscribers in the month of April(against 3.26 of BSNL), while Idea added 5.52 lakh mobile users in the same month. If trend continues , by May end Hutch will over take BSNL as no 2 GSM operator.
Sustaining its aggressive growth in subscriber additions, the GSM-based cellular industry has added over 41 lakh subscribers in April with Bharti Airtel capturing 30.97 per cent of the market share.
With this, the all-India GSM subscriber base has touched 12.55 crore at the end of April 2007 compared to 12.14 crore at the end of March 2007, reflecting a growth rate of 3.40 per cent, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement.
CDMA mobile figures are yet to be out.
MTNL's GSM subscriber base in Delhi and Mumbai touched 24.83 lakh, while Spice Telecom has over 28 lakh subscribers.
Aircel's user base in April stood at 59.27 lakh, followed by Reliance Telecom's 43.47 lakh subscribers.
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