According to the Indian telecom regulator TRAI, India added 8.9 million "active" connections during the month of December 2013, while it added 5.1 million total connections during the month. This indicates that connections that were perhaps inactive in November, became active in December 2013. The number of mobile users in the country is likely to be much less that the 762.39 million active connection base (which is around 86.06% of the total), since this includes multi-SIM users, and the TRAI mistakenly reports “connections” as subscribers. Perhaps, more people started using their other SIM in December. Another interesting thing worth noticing is the dominance of the top three and the top four telecom operators in the country: Airtel, Idea and Vodafone combined, account for 55% of the total mobile connections in India, and 62.2% of the active connections. With RCOM, the top four telcos account for 68.2% of the total mobile connections in India and 76.5% of the active connections. The split between various telecom operators, in terms of active connections Active Connection Base The Active connection data represents peak VLR (Visitor Location Register) data for the month. Some stats: - There were 762.39 million active connection in the month of December. - Idea has 100.98% of its connections active – the maximum among all the operators. TRAI says the percentage of active connections is more than 100% due to in-roamers. - Airtel has the second highest active connection base of 96.23%, followed by Vodafone at 95.63%. In terms of the number of active connections, Airtel leads with 190.92…
