Aircel has emerged as the top operator to add the maximum 8.76 lakh users in August taking its subscriber base to 6.26 crore at the end of August. India’s leading telco Bharti Airtel added 8.33 lakh new users during the period. It now has a subscriber base of 19.22 crore.

Next comes Idea Cellular which added 7.52 lakh subscribers taking its user base to 12.60 crore while RCom added 5.10 lakh subscribers. Its subscriber base now stands at 12.67 crore. Videocon and Loop added 1.58 lakh and 65,057 new users respectively during August.

Vodafone however lost 85,811 subscribers in August with its user base going down to 15.43 crore at the end of August. Uninor lost the maximum 5.05 lakh subscribers during the period. Its user base declined to 3.22 crore.

State-run BSNL and MTNL too ended up on losers’ side with their user base going down by lost 1.31 lakh and 2.92 lakh respectively.

Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices lost 3.73 lakh and 15,515 users respectively during the month.

India’s total mobile subscriber base has shown marginal increase of 0.21% in August, according to the latest data released by TRAI. It grew from 874.88 million in July 2013 to 876.72 million at the end of August 2013.
 
The share of urban wireless subscribers has declined from 60.10% to 59.98% whereas share of rural wireless subscribers has increased from 39.90% to 40.02%. The overall wireless teledensity in India has reached 71.21 from 71.13 of previous month.
 
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 904.46 million at the end of July, 2013 to 906.18 million at the end of August 2013, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.19%. The share of urban subscribers has declined from 60.69% to 60.57% whereas share of rural subscribers has increased from 39.31% to 39.43% in the month of August 2013. With this, the overall Teledensity in India increased from 73.54 at the end of July, 2013 to 73.60 at the end of August, 2013.

Total Broadband subscriber base has increased from 15.24 million at the end of July 2013 to 15.28 million at the end of August 2013, there by showing a monthly growth of 0.26%. Yearly growth in broadband subscribers is 3.10% during the last one year (August 2012 to August 2013).

As on 31stAugust 2013, there are 162 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which are providing broadband services in the country. Out of these, 113 ISPs have provided broadband subscription data for the month of August 2013, for the rest of the ISPs data from previous month has been retained. Top five ISPs in terms of market share (based on subscriber base) are: BSNL (9.98 million), Bharti Airtel (1.43 million), MTNL (1.08 million), Hathway (0.37 million) and You Broadband (0.33 million).
 
As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of August 2013 about 100.20 million subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number
 
In the month of August 2013, total number of subscribers who have submitted their request for MNP is 2.37 million.