According to the Indian telecom regulator TRAI, India added 1.46 million "active" connections during the month of July 2014, while it added 3.79 million total connections during the month. This probably means that several users who hadn’t been using their extra SIM card, began using it since the call rates have gone up and the propensity to use an additional SIM for cheaper calls might have increased. Another interesting thing worth noticing is the dominance of the top three and the top four telecom operators in the country who tend to increase rates together: Airtel, Idea and Vodafone combined, account for 56.72% of the total mobile connections in India, and 62.9% of the active connections. With RCOM, the top four telcos account for 68.6% of the total mobile connections in India and 76.3% 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 797.08 million active connection in the month of July. - Strangely, Idea apparently has 101.38% of its connections active - the highest among all telcos. TRAI says the percentage of active connections is more than 100% due to in-roamers. - RCOM has the second highest active connection base of 97.68%, followed by Airtel at 94.66%. In terms of the number of active connections, Airtel leads with 198.55 million connections followed by Vodafone at 161.28 million connections. Mobile Operator Leaderboard For July 2014: - Vodafone added 1.36 million connections, taking its connection base to…
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