COAI Press Release:
Highest ever GSM Additions in Oct. 2006
Total Mobile subscriber base in DELHI crosses the 10 million mark
 
New Delhi, 9th November 2006: COAI is pleased to announce that the GSM industry continues to sustain its aggressive growth in subscriber additions. The month of October 2006, saw the GSM industry set a new record by adding 4.7 million subscribers (which is even higher than the 4.4 million subscribers added in the month of September 2006).

With this the All India GSM subscriber base has touched the 96 million as on end October 2006 as compared to 91 million as on end September 2006.

October 2006 also saw the mobile industry achieve another milestone as the total mobile subscriber base in DELHI (both GSM as well as CDMA) crossed the 10 million mark.  DELHI thus joins the elite club of cities having more than 10 million subscribers - of which 7 million are on GSM.

Mr. T.V. Ramachandran, Director General, COAI stated that “the GSM industry and COAI are delighted at the continued upswing in the subscriber additions”.  Mr Ramachandran added that “this growth is strong evidence of the fact that GSM continues to be the predominant technology choice of the masses”

Among all circles, Category B circles witnessed the highest rate of growth at 6.3%, followed by Category C circles at 6.2%.

Within the Category B circles, M.P. and Haryana recorded the highest growth at 9.2% and 8.8% respectively.

Within the Category C circles, the highest growth was recorded by the North East (9.4%) followed by Jammu & Kashmir (8.7%).

Category A circles also witnessed a healthy growth of 5.4% in Oct. 06.  A.P. recorded the highest growth of 6.9% followed by Maharashtra at 6.2%.

The Metro subscribers grew by 2.9% over the previous month. Kolkatta recorded the highest growth at (2.9%) followed by Delhi (2.8%).