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Indian GSM Subscribers Reaching 160 Million

By Rafat Ali - Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:15 PM PST

India has about 159.7 million GSM-based mobile subscribers at the end of October, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) yesterday. The subscriber base represents a significant increase on the 95.7 million GSM customers reported at the same time last year and shows healthy monthly growth.
-- Bharti Airtel consolidated its position as India’s largest GSM operator in October, adding over 2 million customers to break the 50 million mark.
-- Number two GSM operator Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Essar, which adopted the Vodafone brand in September, added over 1.5 million customers in October to take its total base to 37.18 million. More here.

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From binny Thu 15 Nov 2007 12:19 AM

We still have a long way to go in order to catch up with China. Also there aren’t any useful value added services available in India. This space has a big opportunities.

From vinod Sat 17 Nov 2007 11:39 AM

What I read India has 250 miilion mobile connections. which means 160 million are GSM and 90 are CDMA?

Can any one guess how many GSM phones are GPRS active?

From BlogsDNA Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:33 AM

Those figuers are really big, but still india has long way to go.

From web design Sun 10 Aug 2008 02:42 AM

Those figuers are really big, but still india has long way to go. Can any one guess how many GSM phones are GPRS active?