According to data released by the Telecom Regulatory authority of India (TRAI), operators added 15.34 million mobile subscribers in April 2011, taking the total number of users to 861.48 million.
The mobile subscriber base increased to 826.93 million at the end of April from 811.59 million in the preceding month, registering a growth of 1.89 per cent.
With this, the overall teledensity reached 72.08 per cent. However, the number of active mobile subscribers, according to the visitor location register (VLR) data, during the month was only 583.22 million.
Growth in the wireless category was led by Reliance Communications, which added 2.93 million subscribers, to take its subscriber base to 138.65 million at the end of April, 2011. Idea Cellular added 2.45 million new users, to take its user base to 91.95 million.
Bharti Airtel added 2.41 million subscribers (increasing its user base to 164.61 million), while Vodafone added 2.4 million users (taking user base to 136.97 million). Aircel added 1.10 million users, while Tata Teleservices added 1.24 million users in April.
Meanwhile, the wireline category continued to lose customers, with the subscriber base declining to 34.55 million at the end of April from 34.73 million in the previous month.
Also, the broadband user base reached 12.01 million in April from 11.87 million in March, growing at 1.17 per cent.
