According to data released by the Cellular operators Association of India (COAI), GSM operators added 11.10 million subscribers in April 2011, taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 580.66 million.
The GSM subscriber base stood at 569.55 million at the end of March, 2011, with an addition of 14.49 million users.
Bharti airtel added 2.41 million users in April, taking its total subscriber base to 164.61 million. It had 28.35 per cent market share as of the end of April 2011.
Vodafone Essar, with a 23.59 per cent market share, garnered 2.40 million new subscribers during the month. Its subscriber base stood at 136.97 million at the end of the reported month.
Idea Cellular added 2.45 million users to take its total user base to 91.95 million. Aircel added 1.10 million customers to take its subscriber base to 55.95 million.
BSNL and MTNL added 689,361 and 14,633 new users, respectively, taking their subscriber base to 87.14 million and 5.21 million, respectively.
