The month of February, 2010 saw India scaling past the 600 million subscriber base mark for telecom services with wireless subscribers forming the major part with 563.73 million subscribers.

The month of February witnessed 18.76 million new subscriber additions at a monthly growth rate of 3.44%. The country’s wireless tele-density at the end of February reached 47.91.

Tata Teleservices failed to maintain its momentum of registering the highest number of monthly new additions as it was dislodged by Vodafone Essar which added 3.08 million subscribers followed by Bharti Airtel with 2.9 million subscribers and Tata Teleservices with 2.84 million subscribers.

Category-wise circle ‘B’ added the most with 8.24 million followed by category ‘A’ at 5.63 million.

The wireline subscriber base dropped from 36.99 million to 36.96 million taking the wireline tele-density to 3.41 %.

India’s overall tele-density reached 51.05% at the end of February 2010.

Broadband subscriber base increased from 8.03 million at the end of January, 2010 to 8.59 million at the end of February, 2010.