A total of 2.1 million subscribers were added in February 2005, taking the total subscriber base (fixed and mobile) in the country to 97 million. The teledensity moved up to 9 per cent at the end of February from 8.8 per cent in end-January. A total of 1.67 million mobile subscribers were added in February, of which about 500,000 were CDMA users while 1.13 million were GSM users.
Bharti had a market share of 26.8 per cent with 10.6 million subscribers while BSNL had a market share of 22.17 per cent.
Hutchison added 215,000 new subscribers and had a market share of 19.22 per cent.
