Update: Bharti Airtel has shared VLR data taking into account a 72 hour period, Senjam Raj Sekhar, Head (Group Corporate Communications) at Bharti Enterprises informs MediaNama. Tata Telservices, as CIOL reported yesterday, says it used VLR data taking a peak period of 7 days, reports CIOL. Our take on this: it is bizarre that the TRAI should ask telecom operators to share VLR data without defining a time period. This also puts a question mark on JS Sarma and the TRAI's contention (as we've reported below) that the data is only as on September 30th 2010. Like we've explained, this system can be gamed. December 6th 2010: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India appears to be in the mood to clear some of the confusion that has existed around the reporting of subscriber information in the country: it has published, for the month ending September 30th 2010, the Visitor Location Register (VLR) numbers provided to it by telecom operators. VLR numbers are an indicator of the active connections at the time. Now keep in mind that the following Active user information is for the last day of the month i.e, 30th September 2010. This means, that any user whose phone was inactive that day, or was using that SIM for the entire day, will be shown as an active subscriber for the telecom operator. All but three Telecom operators - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and the Idea Cellular-Spice combination has active subscribers above the national average. Everyone else, we've marked in…
