We're a little late for the Idea Cellular Q4-FY12 conferencecall, but we're updating relevant bits live. You can dial in too, here are the details. For our report on the results go here. Live updates: 2:44 pm: 15.3% marketshare on VLR basis, a lead of 3.4% over industry subscriber numbers. There are future indications of an improvement in idea subscriber marketshare. less than 60% of the Indian subscriber base is active on mobile. 300-400 million are likely to join the 2G wireless business over the next 3-4 years. Idea added 6.4 million VLR subscribers in the quarter. 2:49 pm: Refarming will have a major disruptive impact if 900 Mhz band is abandoned. Refarming is anti-consumer. Who will bear the cost of refarming? How does the nation benefit form refarming? How does competition improve with refarming? ARPU has improved by Rs 5 to Rs 160 2:50 pm: Minutes of usage: Voice minutes growth exploded by 9.1%, and the daily voice minutes exceeds 1.4 billion a day. Inspite of high minutes growth, the company met all TRAI QoS norms, with lowest call drop rates, below TRAI thresholds. Most of the network expansion is with the latest equipment. 2:53 pm: Mobile Number Portability: over 33.4 million customers have ported, and MNP remains an important parameter. We are number 1 MNP operator, with over 2.9 million net port-in. 2:54 pm: Internet is limited to few elite educated classes, but we committed to develop the broadband market through applications and power of ideas campaigns. Idea is…
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