India GSM Subscribers Base in March 2012 – Airtel Leads ..!

Bharti Airtel tops in the new subscriber additions, added a total of 2.5 million new GSM subscribers followed by IDEA Cellular added the 2nd highest number of new subscribers with 2.01 million in March. Bharti Airtel now has more than 181 million GSM customers with a 27.22% market share.

According to the data released by COAI total 6.87 million new GSM subscribers added with 1.04% increase from previous month taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 664.08 million at the end of March 2012.

Videocon once again lost 0.25 million subscribers. The user base of Videocon stood at 5.95 million.AIRCEL also lost 0.68 million customers and its subscriber base was at 62.57 million.

Among the leading GSM Mobile Service Operators, Vodafone India added 1.02 million new customers, boosting its subscriber base 150.46 million. Uninor that lost licences in the SC’s 2G judgment, notched 1.29 million new customers. Its user base was at 42.43 million by March-end

State run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added 0.89 million taking their subscriber base to 94.67 million. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) added 62399 new users during the month, boosting its total base to 5.93 million at the end of March ’2011.

Other Operators such as STel, Etisalat DB (Cheers Mobile) and Loop Telecom (except Loop Mobile -Mumbai) have announced shutting down of mobile services as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk and are now helping their users move to other operators through Mobile Number Portability (MNP).

Please note : COAI GSM Subscriber base does not include the Reliance Communications (Rcom) and Tata Docomo’s GSM subscriber Base (same not submitted to COAI).

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TRAI Website Gets A New Look

Change is good and we all love to see and feel the change.Telecom watchdog of India, our beloved TRAI has finally risen and welcomes a change. Well I am actually talking about a revamped TRAI website.

Yeah TRAI website has got a refreshing look after a long haul of quite a few years and it looks more elegant and stylish in all sorts. A way more colorful and with new fonts and layout the new website seems very promising with everything well sorted to its best.

A quick look into TRAI’s website you will find every topic under sub heads and tabs with clear cut explanations unlike the old website where everything seemed all messy. See for yourself and compare it with the decade old website (if only you have visited before) and now you can even get in touch with the officials.

The new website has put in all the contact numbers and the email ids of the concerned person and concerned departments.

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TATA Indicom is Now TATA DOCOMO

              Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), the country’s youngest and fastest-growing pan-India dual-technology telecom services provider, has adopted a future-facing strategic for its wide range of products and services and reach out to customers with one common or uniform brand—Tata DOCOMO — cutting across the CDMA and GSM platforms.

With this move, brand Tata DOCOMO now moves into the CDMA space, and all Tata Indicom customers shall be migrated to Tata DOCOMO from today.

    Tata DOCOMO believes that phones are not just for talking and the new strategic approach will bring in the full might of TTL’s telecom experience to customers through an elevation in the promise from ‘only telecom’ to seamless Access, relevant Content and differentiated Solutions.

As part of the new strategy, TTL is integrating the many different market opportunities and empowering the customer—with a single-point brand interface for a seamless user experience. The company has consolidated all organizational assets—spectrum, retail touch-points, digital footprint and consumer franchises across technology platforms under a single brand, Tata DOCOMO.

The migration of services to the unified Tata Docomo brand will happen in Delhi-NCR and in other circles at a later date. This will not impact TTL’s Indicom, Photon and Walky consumers in Delhi as they will continue to get the same quality of service as in the past.

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