India’s mobile subscriber base at 881.4 million in October

India’s total of telephone subscribers (wireless and wireline) increased to 914.6 million at the end of October from 906.9 million the previous month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reported.

The country’s wireless subscriber base grew to 881.4 million from 873.6 million in September, an increase of 0.89%. The overall wireless teledensity in India reached 73.27.

The wireline subscriber base declined from 33.3 million in September to 33.2 million in October. Overall wireline teledensity in India marginally declined to 2.76, TRAI said.

The broadband subscriber base grew from 12.8 million in September to nearly 13 million in October, an increase of 1.03%.

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests increased from 20.6 million in September to 23.2 million in October, TRAI reported. About 2.5 million MNP requests were made in October alone.

Uninor led the growth in the wireless subscriber base by adding 2.6 million new users in October, bringing its subscriber base to 32.3 million users. Idea Cellular added 1.6 million new users, bringing its subscriber base to 101.8 million.

Reliance Communications was next with just over 1 million new subscribers during October. Its subscriber base reached 148.1 million.

Bharti Airtel added 940,000 new users during October, and its subscriber base reached 173.7 million. Vodafone added 920,000 subscribers during October, and its subscriber base was 145.9 million.