September monthly net adds fell slightly to 7.7m (down 6.6% m-o-m) for the first time since March (which was on account of regulator-led sub deactivation), but mainly led by Tata Tele and BSNL. Net adds for all other players remained flat to marginally declining. Bharti’s net adds stood at 2.1m. Telecom India first reported the Wireless Numbers of GSM subscribers here. We have all India cellular user subscriber base represented here at the end of Sept-2007.
Bharti Airtel is the leader in Indian Wireless market with 24.0% market share, followed by Reliance Communications – 18.3%. Vodafone India is very close and may actually beat RCom by the end of this year. Pathetic performance by Tata Indicom, slipped to 6th position from 5th.
