Mobile operators In India continued to add subscribers in the third quarter(Sept-2006) as if their is no tomorrow, which has made India the fastest growing mobile market in the world. Bharti Airtel Ltd, continues to be the single largest Mobile service provider in India with 26,267,593 subscribers representing 28% of the GSM Market. State owned BSNL-CellOne follows Airtel with 20,536,253 subscribers controlling 22.56% of the GSM Market (excludes MTNL). Hutch occupies the third slot with 13,700,199 subscribers representing 15.05% of the GSM Market (excludes BPL Mumbai which is under controversy between Essar TeleHoldings and Hutch)
The biggest gainer during this quarter was Idea cellular. Its subscriber based increased frrom 8,535,443 at the end of Q2-2006 to 11,552,620 representing 12.69% of the GSM Market. Spice Telecom is the worst performer in the GSM segment.
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