According to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), mobile subscribers in the country rose to 791.38 million in February with the addition of 20.2 million connections.
Also, the wireless user base grew 2.62 percent, from 771.18 million in January. While the share of urban subscribers declined to 66.36 percent from 66.42 percent, the share of rural subscribers increased from 33.58 percent to 33.64 percent.
With this, the total number of telephone subscribers touched 826.25 million, registering a growth of 2.50 percent.
Overall teledensity in India reached 69.29.
However, according to the report, of the total 791.38 million subscribers in February, only 562.98 million subscribers were active subscribers on the date of peak visitor location register (VLR).
The growth in this category was led by Vodafone, which added 3.56 million users to take its subscriber base to 130.92 million users. Reliance Communications followed, with an addition of added 3.3 million new subscribers, taking its subscriber base to 132.18 million.
Bharti airtel added 3.2 million subscribers to take its total number of customers to 159 million. Idea Cellular added 2.51 million subsribers, increasing its subscribers count to 86.8 million while Uninor added 1.27 million subscribers to have 21.57 million subscribers.
According to the data, the broadband subscriber base grew 2.34 percent from 11.21 million in January to 11.47 million in February 2011. However, the wireline segment declined marginally from 34.94 million in December to 34.87 million at the end of February.
