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To: slacker711 who wrote (41476)	7/7/2004 1:29:16 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196771

Another mediocre month for net adds in India....hopefully, Reliance will roll-out a new version of their "Monsoon Hungama" offer in the next month or so. hinduonnet.com CDMA subscription touches nears 81 lakhs New Delhi, July 7. (PTI): The CDMA-based mobile subscriber base of private operators touched 80.68 lakh in June this year adding 3.43 lakh customers with Reliance cornering 72.97 lakh digital mobile subscribers. As per the latest subscription figures released by Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India, the gross additions of CDMA-based mobile phones was pegged at 3.43 lakh in June with Reliance cornering 72.97 lakh digital mobile phones. The overall telephony base of all these operators stood at 1.1 crore of which 12.52 lakh was wireline, 16.86 lakh was WLL (fixed) and the rest were digital mobile users. Reliance Infocomm, which operates its CDMA telephony services across 20 circles including Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra, hiked its total subscriber base to 79.79 lakh in June adding 3.51 lakh customers. During the month, Tata Teleservices' base stood at 20.28 lakh users. Of this, 7.09 lakh were fully mobile users, 9.31 lakh were WLL (F) users and the remaining wireline users. The subscriber base of Bharti Telenet, which operates in Chennai, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, was at 7.03 lakh during June 2004. Bharti does not offer CDMA-based fully mobile service. The total subscriber base of HFCL Infotel in Punjab and Shyam Telelink in Rajashan stood at 1.72 lakh and 1.23 lakh respectively. Cellular subscriber growth up 10 lakhs in June Meanwhile, GSM based cellular subscriber base touched 2.92 crore in June this year with the addition of 10.29 lakh new users with Bharti cornering over a quarter of market share with 76.72 lakh customers. According to the latest figures released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), subscriber additions during June stood at 10.29 lakh. In the last two months of April and May, the net cellular additions had fallen below the 10-lakh mark. At 76.72 lakh subscriber base, Bharti had a market share of 26.27 per cent in June and it added 3.29 lakh subscribers during the month. A surprise increase was that of BSNL which displaced Hutch for the second slot in total subscriber figure at 57.95 lakh during the month of June with a market share of 19.84 per cent. It added 2.68 lakh subscribers in the month. Hutch was displaced by BSNL to the third slot with a total subscriber base of 57.70 lakh with a market share of 19.76 per cent. Hutch added 1.79 lakh in June. However, Hutch will continue to occupy the second slot if the latest acquisition of AirCel is taken into account and the subscriber base goes up to 69.42 lakh. Idea Cellular notched a subscriber base of 40.45 lakh with a market share of slightly lower 13.85 per cent than its market share in May. BPL cornered 21.48 lakh subscribers in June to have a market share of 7.36 per cent while BPL had a share of 7.36 per cent at 21.48 lakh customers.