India Telecoms Update @ Mar12

Source : Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

• Overall telephony base reaches 951 mn taking overall Teledensity to 79% (wireless @ 76%, wireline @ 3%)
• Highest teledensity in Delhi at 239% & lowest in Assam at 47%
• Share of Urban subs @ 65% of total
• 8 mn wireless additions during the month taking the overall wireless base to 919 mn
• 1.8 mn Urban and 6.2 mn Rural additions
• 596 mn Urban and 323 mn Rural wireless subs
• Wireless teledendity @ 76% (163% in Urban & 38% in Rural)
• Service provider-wise share of net wireless additions in Mar : Bharti Airtel (31%), IDEA (25%), Uninor (16%), Reliance (13%), Vodafone (13%), BSNL (10%),  Sistema (5%), MTNL (1%), Tata (-2%), Aircel (-9%)
• Of the wireless adds in Mar, in the Metros there was a net add of 0.6 mn subs, Category A circles an add of 2 mn, Category B circles 3.7 mn and Category C circles 1.8 mn 
• Service provider-wise cumulative wireless market share end-Mar : Bharti Airtel (19.7%), Reliance (16.7%), Vodafone (16.4%), IDEA (12.3%), BSNL (10.7%), Tata (8.9%), Aircel (6.8%), Uninor (4.6%), Sistema (1.7%), Videocon (0.7%)
• Dispersion of wireless sub base end-Mar : Metros (11%), Category A circles (35%), Category B circles (40%), Category C circles (14%)
• Peak active wireless subscribers on VLR in Mar @ 683 mn 
• 74% of total wireless base was active at peak time during Mar
• Jammu & Kashmir has the highest proportion of VLR subs @ 85% followed by Assam (82%), MP (82%) and Maharashtra (79%); Mumbai has the lowest proportion with 64%
• Service provider wise, IDEA leads the tally with 94%  followed by Bharti Airtel with 92% and Vodafone with 89%; STel is at the bottom with 29%
• Cumulative Mobile Number Portability requests till end Mar stood at 42 mn. Highest requests from Karnataka followed by Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra 
• Wireline base continued to steadily decline and was at 32.2 mn 
• Broadband (>256 kbps) subscriber base inched up to 13.8 mn