Indian mobile services continued its fast northward march in terms of subscriber base growth with GSM operators collectively managing to add over 13 million subscribers in the month of February, 2010.

The month also saw the GSM subscriber base of the country scaling past the 400 million mark (results released by COAI do not take into account subscriber base of dual tech operators RCom and TTSL) with the subscriber base at 407.91 million subscribers.

Vodafone Essar overtook market leader Bharti Airtel in adding the highest number of new subscribers. It added 3 million subscribers as compared to Airtel’s 2.9 million. Aircel added 1.8 million subscribers while PSU BSNL added 1.5 million. Idea Cellular added 2.25 million subscribers while new entrants Uninor and S Tel added 1.01 million and 0.21 million subscribers respectively.

Circle-wise category ‘B’ circles added the highest subscribers with 5 million new subscribers.