As far as mobile is concerned, the new year seems to be going the Tata way. Tata Teleservices continues to add more connections than anyother telco for the month of January 2010. It has added 2.98 million connections in January taking its total to 60.31 million connections beating Idea Cellular for the first time. All top telcos have added more than 2 million connections each taking the total number of wireless connections in India to 545.05 million. There was a net addition of 19.90 million new connections for the month. Wireless tele-density stands at 46.37. Percent Share of Net Additions For January 2010 Bihar added 2.22 million new connections, the most number of additions as compared to any other state. There are 10 telecom operators in Bihar including new entrant S Tel and Uninor. Andhra Pradesh has the largest number of mobile connections that stands at 42.90 million as of January 2010. Bharti Airtel has a big presence in Andhra Pradesh with a total of 12.43 million connections. For the quarter ended December 2009, HFCL Infotel reported a loss of Rs 135.33 milion, no wonder they have been losing customers regularly. For the month of January HFCL which operates in Punjab only, lost 17,770 connection and is left with 324092 connections. New entrant Stel and Uninor seem to be doing quite well for themeselves. In their second month of operation STel has added 364,768 new connections taking its total to 506,179 connections. STel operates in Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Orissa.…
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