New Delhi: GSM-based mobile operators added 12.4 million subscribers in September to take their total tally to 494 million.
BSNL was the top operator in terms of subscriber addition with 2.3 million users. This is the first time in the last five years that BSNL has emerged the top operator. BSNL now has 72.7 million subscribers and is ranked fourth among GSM operators.
Among the private players, newcomer Uninor ramped up its user base by 2.17 million beating incumbent operators such as Airtel and Vodafone. This is the second consecutive month where Uninor crossed the two-million new subscriber mark. Market leader Bharti Airtel got just over two million new subscribers to take its total user base to 143 million. Vodafone added 1.7 million users in September against 2.3 million in August.
Industry watchers, however, said that the numbers being reported by some of the operators should be discounted by 30-40 per cent since there is no standard reporting norm.
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