Mumbai Wireless Telecom Market 2012

Source: TRAI

Slowdown in growth as saturation point is approaching...

·    Mobile subscriber base of Mumbai increased by 4.27% during FY2012 to reach 36.28 million. Mumbai is the slowest growing market in India in terms of total wireless subscribers addition

·    Active wireless subscriber base in Mumbai is 64.11% resulting in 23.26 million active mobile users

·    Mumbai has least proportion of active mobile users in the country

·    Active subscriber base in Mumbai increased by 14.28% during FY2012 compared with national average of 19.00%, 5^th lowest in the country

·    By March 2012, Mumbai is 15^th largest wireless telecom market in India accounting for 3.41% of total active subscriber base

·    By March 2012, Mumbai registered 1,459,797 Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests, resulting into churn rate of 4.02%

Reliance leads with 26.3% share in the financial capital of India…

·    In Mumbai wireless telecom market, Reliance leads with 24.2% share in terms of total subscriber base followed by Vodafone (16.0%), Tata (12.8%) and Airtel (10.3%)

·    In terms of active subscriber base, Reliance has 26.3% market share followed by Vodafone (21.1%), Airtel (13.6%), Idea (10.1%) and Tata (9.5%)

·    Vodafone and Airtel gained as 84.6% and 85.0% of their respective subscriber base is active compared with just 47.5% for Tata. Idea too benefits from 82.7% active users

·    MTNL with meager 4.0% share of active users is fast approaching a status of extinct species in Mumbai. MTNL’s active user percentage is 31.3% showing bulk of its user base is dead

·    Top 5 players accounts for 80.6% of Mumbai’s active mobile subscriber base