200 million mobile subscribers

India has met the 200 million (20 crore) mobile subscribers target four months ahead of schedule and 15 months after crossing the 100 million mark in May 2006.

8.31 million wireless subscribers were added in August 2007, taking the total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA, WLL-F) base to 201.29 million.

• Total telephone subscribers = 241.02 million
• Wireless subscriber base = 201.29 million
• Wireline subscriber base = 39.73 million
• Teledensity = 21.20%

Top operators

• Bharti Airtel = 2.05 million new users, 46.8 million total
• Reliance Communications = 34.82 million users total
• Vodafone Essar = 1.67 million new users, 34.11 million total
• BSNL = 33.45 million users total
• Tata Tele = 18.90 million users total
• Idea = 17.87 million users total

Graphical Representation

Also Read: TRAI press release

[Courtesy - VeerChand Bothra, Mobile Pundit]

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Varun Nagpal,
Corporate Study Team,
IMERT, Pune