Maharashtra is leading driven by higher proportion of
active users while Airtel is at pole
Source: TRAI
India’s
active mobile subscriber base increased to 735.88 million in August 2013 from 731.40
million in July 2013 …
· Indian
wireless telecom market ends August 2013 with subscriber base of 876.72 million,
addition of 1.84 million, monthly growth rate of 0.21%
· Overall
mobile teledensity stands at 71.21% (Urban:
139.65%, Rural: 41.05%)
· Urban
to rural subscriber ratio is 59.98% to 40.02%
· Rural
market expanded by 1.79 million mobile subscribers at a monthly growth rate of
0.51% while urban subscriber base increased
0.05 million, growth of 0.01%
· According
to VLR data, India had 735.88 million active mobile subscribers. Hence, actual
wireless teledensity in India is 59.77% by August 2013
· In
August 2013, about 2.37 million subscribers submitted Mobile Number Portability
(MNP) requests which is about 0.27% of total mobile subscriber base in India
Bharti
Airtel leads with 24.8% share as market continues to focus on active subscriber
base ….
· Bharti
Airtel maintains its leadership position with 24.8% market share in India
· Idea
has largest proportion of active mobile users at 97.80% followed by Vodafone (95.94%)
and Bharti Airtel (95.05%)
· State-owned
BSNL+MTNL with only 55.85% of active mobile subscriber base is certainly
struggling in highly competitive and dynamic market environment raising lot of
concerns about their future
· While
Tata (68.36%), Aircel (63.84%) and Unitech (69.02%) are way behind leading pack
in terms of active user proportion raising doubts about long term
sustainability of their business model
· Aircel
(0.87 million), Bharti (0.83 million) and Idea (0.75 million) led in terms of
net subscriber additions during August 2013 while Tata (-0.37 million) and Unitech
(-0.50 million) were worst performers
· Top
5 players in Indian wireless telecom industry accounts for 84.4% market share
in terms of active subscriber base
Maharashtra
holds top position …
· Maharashtra
with 61.62 million active mobile users is leading followed by U.P. (East) with
60.45 million active mobile subscribers
· With
89.82% of active subscribers, Maharashtra is the most active circle while Tamil
Nadu with 73.47% active users is least active
· Andhra
Pradesh (55.30 million) is third followed by Tamil Nadu (53.90 million) at
fourth. Bihar with 50.73 million active mobile subscribers is the 5th
largest market wireless telecom market in India
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