Tata Teleservices (TTSL) crossed the 70 million subscriber mark with additions of 2.33 million new subscriber sin the month of May 2010. The company had a subscriber base of 35 million in May 2009 and thus the growth rate is seen at 100%.

On the achievement, Anil Sardana, Managing Director of Tata Teleservices Limited, said, “We thank and appreciate every subscriber’s faith in us as a transparent, caring and efficient telecom services company. With each new milestone crossed, we have raised our own internal benchmarks—in keeping with our larger objective of consistently enhancing and improving our standards, and of providing our customers with differentiated and lifestyle-impacting telecom services.”

“With the countdown on 3G services having begun, we will continue to walk the innovation path, providing our customers with differentiated products and services which will take telecom to the next level. We are working closely on the creation of such relevant products with our partners, particularly NTT DOCOMO, which is acknowledged as the world leader in telecom technology development; and look forward to the next wave in Indian telecoms,” Mr. Sardana added.