Bharti Airtel has reported total 19.44 million 3G Mobile Internet connections for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, registering a 14.7% increase from 16.94 million 3G connections in the previous quarter and almost doubling from 10.25 million 3G Mobile Internet connections in the same quarter last year. The total mobile Internet base however saw a 9.8% increase quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 46.39 million connections, from 42.25 million connections in the previous quarter, while it increased 30.3% year-on-year (YoY) from 35.6 million in the same quarter last year. Note that Airtel started weeding out incidental users a few quarters ago. 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. The company’s Mobile Internet base accounted for 20.52% of the Airtel’s total India connection base for the quarter, up slightly from 19.45% in the previous quarter. The 3G Mobile Internet base accounts for 8.6% of total for Airtel. Mobile Internet revenues for Airtel in India, grew by 69.4% YoY to Rs 2320.98 crore for the quarter. Sequentially, the revenues grew 9.8% from Rs 2114 crore. The segment accounted for 17.6% of Airtel's total India mobile services revenues for the quarter, as compared to 16.2% in the previous quarter and 11.5% in the same quarter last year. No 4G data: The company hasn’t disclosed any updated data on how its 4G service is performing. Few quarters ago, Airtel had claimed that its 4G connection base had crossed the 100,000 mark…
