COAI: GSM mobile service providers add 44 lakh new customers in September

The month of September saw a jump in the number of GSM users in India. According to the newest data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India, GSM mobile service providers have together added more than 44 lakh new customers in September. This increases the overall customer base to 67.88 crore in September.

The report says that the GSM subscribers have increased by 4.41 million in September 2013, which is a 0.65 percent increase from the previous month. The total GSM subscribers as of September 2013 now stand at 678.82 million. However, it should be noted that this overall number of new additions could be much more as the data doesn’t include new subscribers from Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices who are not members of COAI.

GSM customer base grows with more than 55 lakh new users (Image credit: Getty Images)

Idea Cellular leads in this joint GSM customer growth by adding 12.07 lakh new costumers last month. Now, its total customer base goes all the way up to 12.72 crore. It was closely followed by Vodafone as the telco added 12.05 lakh new customers last month. Vodafone’s customer base has reportedly reached 15.55 crore in September.

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Airtel managed to add 11.6 lakh new customers, and still leads with overall 19.33 crore customers. On the other hand, Aircel and Uninor have added 6.4 lakh and 1 lakh new customers, respectively. Newly entered Videocon managed to grow its customer base by 11 percent, and now has 32.4 lakh customers. On the other hand, MTNL lost about 90,000 mobile users in September while there was no change in the customer base of BSNL.

With inputs from news agencies