Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has published latest telecom subscription data for the moth of October 2016. As per the latest report, state run telecom major - BSNL activated more than 11 lakh new mobile connections and achieved a monthly growth rate of 1.27%.
BSNL - the fourth largest mobile operator in the country, holds a market share of 8.80% in October 2016. The
performance of BSNL in wireless subscriber addition and monthly growth
rate is continuously increasing from July 2015 on wards - after the
launch of FREE All India Roaming Scheme.
Month & Year
|
Net Addition of Wireless Subscribers by BSNL
|
Monthly Growth Rate of BSNL
|
Market Share of BSNL
|
July 2015
|
4.8 lakhs
|
0.62%
|
7.92%
|
August 2015
|
8.1 lakhs
|
1.04%
|
7.95%
|
September 2015
|
10.8 lakhs
|
1.33%
|
8.00%
|
October 2015
|
7.27 lakhs
|
0.91%
|
8.01%
|
November 2015
|
9.3 lakhs
|
1.16%
|
8.06%
|
December 2015
|
11.5 lakhs
|
1.41%
|
8.16%
|
January 2016
|
9.3 lakhs
|
1.12%
|
8.20%
|
February 2016
|
13.9 lakhs
|
1.67%
|
8.26%
|
March 2016
|
15.19 lakhs
|
1.79%
|
8.35%
|
April 2016
|
11.39 lakhs
|
1.32%
|
8.46%
|
May 2016
|
7.54 lakhs
|
0.86%
|
8.54%
|
| June 2016 | 13.03 lakhs | 1.48% | 8.65% |
| July 2016 | 11.74 lakhs | 1.31% | 8.77% |
| August 2016 | 16.46 lakhs | 1.82% | 8.98% |
| September 2016 | 14.02 lakhs | 1.52% | 8.93% |
| October 2016 | 11.87 lakhs | 1.27% | 8.80% |
As on 31st October 2016, the private access service providers held 90.86% market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two PSUs access service providers, held only 9.14% market share.
Total wireless subscriber base increased from 1049.74 million at the end of September 2016 to 1078.42 million at the end of October 2016, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 2.73%.
The total number of broadband subscribers in India, increased from 192.30 million at the end of September 2016 to 218.42 million at the end of October 2016 with monthly growth rate of 13.59%. Top Five service providers constituted 80.36% market share of total broadband subscribers at the end of October 2016. These service providers were Bharti Airtel (48.17 million), Vodafone (40.19 million), Idea Cellular Ltd (29.76 million), Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (35.94 million) and BSNL (21.46 million).
In Wired Broadband segment, BSNL holds the No.1 position with 9.94 million customers, followed by Bharti Airtel with 1.95 million customers.
Top Five Wired Broadband Service providers as on 31st October 2016
1. BSNL (9.94 million)
2. Bharti Airtel (1.95 million)
3. Atria Convergence Technologies (1.12 million)
4. MTNL (1.06 million)
5. YOU Broadband (0.59 million)
Top Five Wireless Broadband Service providers as on 31st October 2016
1. Bharti Airtel (46.22 million)
2. Vodafone (40.19 million)
3. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (35.94 million)
4. Idea Cellular (29.76 million)
5. Reliance Communications (16.95 million)
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
In the month of October 2016, a total of 4.93 million subscribers submitted their requests for MNP. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 239.46 million at the end of September 2016 to 244.39 million at the end of October 2016.
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Active VLR subscriber base of BSNL went down to 65.20 million in November from 72.58 million in October.BSNL also lost 86,964 landline connections in November.
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