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Monday, February 24, 2014

4.14 m more rural mobile subscribers added in Jan

Mumbai: The country’s GSM operators added 4.14 million rural subscribers in January, a 1.5 per cent increase from the previous month, taking the total to 285.35 million.

Vodafone India added the maximum rural subscribers of 1.31 million taking its total to 87.43 million during the month under review, according to data released by GSM operators’ body — Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).

Bharti Airteladded 1.25 million users during the month. The New Delhi-based company, however, maintained its leadership position with a total of 91.40 million users. Idea Cellular, the Aditya Birla group company, added 0.87 million users, taking the total to 71.25 million, while Aircel added 0.40 million, increasing the total to 24.64 million in January.

Telewings (formerly Uninor) added 0.31 million subscribers, taking its total rural user base to 10.63 million as of January 31.

TN, Uttar Pradesh
The maximum rural subscriber additions of 574,412 came in from Tamil Nadu circle, while Uttar Pradesh (East) had the maximum rural user base of 29.42 million, according to COAI.

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