According to the Indian Telecom regulator TRAI, India added 2.9 million "active" subscribers during the month of September 2013, while it lost 6.1 million total connections during the month. The total connections was pulled by Reliance Communications (RCOM) which lost around 10.49 million connections (around 8% of its user base) in September 2013. The telco also lost 0.9 million active subscribers during the quarter and slipped one position to the fourth position in the mobile operator leader board. Note that the number of mobile users in the country is likely to be much less that the 738.86 million active connection base (which is around 84.87% of the total), since this includes multi-SIM users, and the TRAI mistakenly reports “connections” as subscribers. The other thing worth noticing is the dominance of the top three telecom operators, as well as the top four: The combination of Airtel, Idea and Vodafone, which tends to increase rates together, accounts for 54.7% of the total mobile connections in India, and 61.8% of the active connections. With RCOM, the top four telcos account for 68% of the total mobile connections in India and 76.6% of the active connections. That dominance is increasing: the top three telcos accounted for 92.31% of the active connection connections growth, although it dips to 61% if RCOM is taken into account, due to a significant decline on RCOM's active connection base. * The split between various telecom operators, in terms of active connection Active Connection Base The Active connection data represents peak VLR (Visitor Location Register) data…
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