The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased from 903.09 million (90.30 crore ) at the end of Jun-13 to 899.86 million (89.98 crore ) at the end of Sep-13, registering a negative growth of 0.36% over the previous quarter, According to the latest figures released by the regulator TRAI. 
 
This reflects year-on-year (Y-O-Y) negative growth of 4.03% over the same quarter of last year. The overall Tele-density in India declined from 73.50 as on 30th June, 2013 to 73.01 as on 30th September, 2013.

Mobile subscribers (GSM and CDMA) declined to 87.05 crore at the end of September from 87.33 crore in June and the wireline base dropped to 2.92 crore from 2.97 crore.
 
GSM subscribers, increased by 0.69 per cent to 80.76 crore at the end of September as against 80.21 crore at the end of June. The CDMA subscriber base declined 11.7 per cent to 6.29 crore from 7.12 crore.
 
Trai said Bharti Airtel remained the leading operator with 19.33 crore subscribers, followed by Vodafone with 15.55 crore and Idea with 12.72 crore users.
 
Airtel has added the highest number of subscribers at 2.47 million, followed by Aircel (2.28 million) while Reliance Communications has the maximum net loss of 9.47 million subscribers during this quarter.
 
According to latest data, there there were 2.21 crore Internet subscribers, excluding users accessing the Internet through mobile devices.
 
TRAI said that in the month of September 2013, 188.2 million subscribers accessed Internet through mobile devices, as per the information received from 12 service providers," it said.
 
The average revenue per user (ARPU) of GSM operators declined to Rs 109 for the quarter from Rs 111 in the June quarter, whereas the ARPU of CDMA players fell to Rs 98.22 from Rs 98.35.