Telecom Monthly

Effects of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) set in

India’s GSM subscriber base grew by 2.53% in January from the previous month with the addition of 13.71 million new mobile phone users. According to data released by the COAI, the total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 556.68 million as against 542.97 million in December. Bharti Airtel alone saw addition of over 3.3 million new users. Vodafone added 3.1 million new subscribers in January, taking its total base of 127.36 million subscribers. Idea Cellular followed up with an addition of 2.51 million new subscribers, taking its total base to 84.29 million.