Punjab Wireless Telecom Market 2012

Source: TRAI

Punjab is the slowest growing market in India in terms of active mobile subscribers…

·         Mobile subscriber base of Punjab increased by 11.11% during FY2012 to reach 31.95 million

·         Active wireless subscriber base in Punjab is 73.80% resulting in 23.58 million active mobile users

·         Active subscriber base in Punjab increased by 12.62% during FY2012 compared with national average of 19.00%, slowest in the country

·         By March 2012, Punjab is 14^th largest wireless telecom market in India accounting for 3.45% of total active subscriber base

·         By March 2012, Punjab registered 1,603,051 Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests, resulting into churn rate of 5.02%

Bharti Airtel leaves competition far behind with 27.0% share...

·         Bharti Airtel leads Punjab wireless telecom market with 21.8% of total subscriber base followed by Idea (17.0%), Reliance (15.5%), BSNL (14.7%) and Vodafone (14.2%)

·         Bharti has 91.5% of active subscribers while figure for Idea is 90. 8% and Vodafone is 92.9%. Active subscriber proportion for these three players is significantly higher compared with competition

·         Consequently, Bharti Airtel tops with 27.0% share followed by Idea (21.0%), Vodafone (17.9%)

·         Top 5 players accounts for 87.6% of Punjab’s active mobile subscriber base