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Indian Mobile Subscriber Stats:

5.9M New, 812M Active, 930.2M
Total [Sept 14]
TRAI has released their monthly telecom subscription report
for month of September 2014, and it clearly shows that the
growth in mobile subscription is witnessing healthy growth
again. 2011 and 2012 saw decline in reported numbers as
millions of inactive numbers went out of the system.
Idea Cellular continued to be the top operator in India adding
maximum number of subscribers third month in a row. They
added over 1.7 million subscribers, marginally higher than
what they did in month of August 2014.
According to the report, September 2014 saw addition of 5.9
million new mobile subscribers taking the total tally to 930.2
million. September is also the straight 12th month which has
witnessed positive growth. In last one year, 60 million new
mobile subscribers have been added and 43.9 million in 2014.
Here is the 18 month graph of mobile subscriber
additions.

While 930.2 million is the total mobile subscription numbers,

active subscribers (who has used the numbers in past 90
days) have reached 812.11 million a growth of 4.82 mln over
August 2014.
The percentage of active subscribers has remained at healthy
87.30. In last 18 month active percentage has grown by over
4 percent thanks to aggressive steps by TRAI to weed out
inactive numbers from the system.
Here is graph showing Total Vs Active subscriber base
over past 18 months.

Mobile Subscription Highlights [Sept 2014]

With an increase of 5.88 mln in Sept 2014, total mobile
subscriber base has reached to 930.20 million. India
had 924.322 million subscribers by end of August 2014.
Urban India witnessed a monthly increase of 0.55 percent or
3.02 mln subscribers, while rural mobile subscriber base
increased by 0.76 percent or 2.87 mln.
Urban Teledensity increased to 142.39 from 141.84 in Aug
14, while the rural tele-density increased to 44.32 from
previous 44.02.
Urban mobile subscriber share stands at 58.88% as
compared 41.12% of rural subscribers.
- 3.26 million new Mobile portability requests were
made in month of Sept 2014, taking the total tally of MNP
requests since launch to 132.81 mln.

 Active Mobile Subscriber base increased from 807.29 mln in

August 14 to 812.11 mln in Sept 14, taking the active
percentage to 87.30 percent.
Total Broadband (> 512 Kbps) subscription numbers
increased from 74.31 million at the end of August 14
to 75.73 million at the end of Sept 14 with monthly
growth rate of1.92%

Operator Wise Subscriber Additions

[September 2014]
Idea Cellular garnered maximum new mobile subscribers for
the third month in a row adding 1.725 million, marginally
higher than previous month. They also increased their market
share to 15.43 percent.

On the other hand BSNL lost over 885,000 subscribers in Sept

2014 It is also the 5th month where they have witnessed fall
in subscribers.

Airtel is a market leader by a fair margin with 22.74 percent

market share followed by Vodafone (18.69%) and Idea
(15.43%)
If you consider the time period from January 2014 to
September 2014, Idea and Vodafone have performed
extremely well. Idea Cellular has added 11.37 mln new
subscribers since Jan, while Vodafone has added 11.17
million. Market leader Airtel has added 8.34 mln.
Among other operators, Unitech has performed quite well and
have added 6.3 mln since start of this year. On the other
hand, BSNL has lost a total of 9.6 mln subscribers followed by
Sistema who lost close to 4 mln.
Here is the comparison of mobile operators since start of
2014

Top 8 Mobile Operators in Numbers

#

Operator

Total Subscriber Count (till Sept 2014)

Bharti Airtel

211,551,316

Vodafone

173,847,293

Idea

143,560,191

Reliance

110,124,024

BSNL

86,718,098

Tata

64,248,086

Aircel

75,850,649

Telewings / Uninor

41,815,586

[TRAI Sept 2014 report]