Maharashtra ends the year with considerable lead while Airtel
continues to dominate
Source: TRAI
India’s
active mobile subscriber base increased to 762.39 million in December 2013 …
· Indian wireless telecom market ends December
2013 with subscriber base of 886.30 million, addition of 5.16 million, monthly
growth rate of 0.59%
· Overall mobile teledensity stands at
71.69% (Urban: 138.94%, Rural: 41.95%)
· Urban to rural subscriber ratio is 59.42%
to 40.58%
· Rural market expanded by 2.33 million
mobile subscribers at a monthly growth rate of
0.65% while urban subscriber base increased 2.83 million, growth of 0.54%
· According to VLR data, India had 762.40
million active mobile subscribers. Hence, actual wireless teledensity in India
is 61.67% by December 2013
· In December 2013, about 2.50 million
subscribers submitted Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests which is about
0.28% of total mobile subscriber base in India
Bharti
Airtel leads with 25.0% share as market continues to focus on active subscriber
base eliminating inactive subscribers….
·
Bharti
Airtel maintains its leadership position with 25.0% market share in India
·
Idea
has largest proportion of active mobile users at 100.98% followed by Bharti
Airtel (96.23%) and Vodafone (95.63%)
·
State-owned
BSNL+MTNL with only 57.53% of active mobile subscriber base is certainly
struggling in highly competitive and dynamic market environment raising lot of
concerns about their future
·
While
Tata (67.24%) and Aircel (64.22%) are way behind leading pack in terms of
active user proportion raising doubts about long term sustainability of their
business model
·
Vodafone
(2.37 million), Bharti (1.80 million) and Aircel (1.63 million) led in terms of
net subscriber additions during December 2013 while BSNL (-2.04 million) performed
poorly
·
Top
5 players in Indian wireless telecom industry accounts for 84.1% market share
in terms of active subscriber base
Maharashtra
strengthened its leadership position …
·
Maharashtra
with 65.01 million active mobile users is leading followed by U.P. (East) with 62.69
million active mobile subscribers
·
With
92.24% of active subscribers, Maharashtra is the most active circle while Tamil
Nadu with 74.08% active users is least active
·
Andhra
Pradesh (57.48 million) is third followed by Tamil Nadu (55.00 million) at
fourth. Bihar with 52.69 million active mobile subscribers is the 5th
largest market wireless telecom market in India
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