Airtel India has reported total 15.5 million 3G connections for the quarter ended September 30, 2014, registering a 23% increase from 12.54 million 3G connections in the previous quarter and more than doubling from 7.44 million 3G connections in the same quarter last year. The total mobile Internet base however saw a minor 2% growth to 40.1 million connections for the quarter, from 39.3 million connections in the previous quarter. Year on year, the Mobile Internet connection base grew 43% from 28.04 million. It's worth noting that Airtel had started culling incidental mobile Internet users from the previous quarter, due to which its mobile Internet base had dropped to 39.3 million in Q1-FY15, from 58.1 million in Q4-FY14. Incidental data users are users who have consumed less than 1 MB/month. This followed a similar move from Idea Cellular in Q3-FY14 and following Airtel, even Reliance Communications started culling incidental mobile Internet users from the previous quarter. The company's mobile Internet base accounted for 18.9% of the Airtel's total India connection base for the quarter, up slightly from 18.8% in the previous quarter. Mobile Internet revenues for Airtel in India, grew by 73.8% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 1,805 crore for the quarter. Sequentially, the revenues grew 15.75% from Rs 1,559.4 crore. The segment accounted for 14.5% of its total India revenues for the quarter, as compared to 12.4% in the previous quarter and 9.4% in the same quarter last year. No 4G data: Airtel MD & CEO (India & South Asia) Gopal Vittal mentioned that its 4G rollout in 15 cities is now witnessing "stronger customer…
