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Airtel reports 10.98M 3G & 58.08M data connections for Q4-FY14

Airtel India has reported 58.08 million mobile Internet connections for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, up 7% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), adding 3.65 million data connections during the quarter. Year on year, it reported a 34% growth from 43.49 million data customers in the same quarter last year. Of this, around 10.98 million are 3G connections, a 16% increase from 9.49 million 3G connections in the previous quarter and a significant 72% increase from 6.39 million 3G connections in the same quarter last year. In comparison, Airtel's competitor Idea Cellular had reported 10.2 million 3G connections and 25.3 million mobile Internet connections yesterday, although this doesn't include ‘incidental data users. It's not clear whether Airtel takes these users into account or not. The telco also hasn't disclosed any specific information on its 4G connection base. In the previous quarter, Airtel had claimed to have crossed the 100,000 mark in the country.  Note that Airtel is currently the only telco offering 4G services in India. It offers this service through dongles and routers in four Indian cities. It had launched 4G for smartphones in February this year, although the service is limited to iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C users in Bangalore at the moment. Airtel had earlier mentioned that it is looking to use the 1800MHz spectrum it acquired in the February 2014 2G auctions, to roll out high speed 4G networks using FD-LTE technology in the 1800 MHz band for a pan-India 4G rollout. Data usage per connection grew by 11% to 277 MB for the quarter, up from 249 MB in…

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