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
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