In December, a total of 12.52 million GSM connections were added and India at the end of 2009 has 379.85 million GSM connections. This is a growth of 3.41 percent ... Continue_Reading

In November, a total of 11.09 million connections were added and India now has a total of 366.78 million GSM users. There was a 3.12 percent rise. Note: The ... Continue_Reading

Smart Cards Under The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) A total of 3,445,762 smart cards have been issued this year alone in 21 states under The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). ... Continue_Reading

October saw an addition of 10.32 million connections, highest in the last three months (9.03 million in September; 9.75 million in August and 9.47 million in July) taking the total ... Continue_Reading

India’s GSM sector added 9.75 million new GSM connections in August 2009 compared to 9.47 million in July 2009. The total number of GSM connections in the country rose 2.99% ... Continue_Reading

India’s GSM sector added 9.47 million new GSM connections in July 2009 compared to 8.89 million in June 2009. The total number of GSM connections in the country rose 3% to ... Continue_Reading

The journey to mobile number portability in India has hit its first major hurdle. Established players have demanded a “porting charge” be set up so they can recover their expenses ... Continue_Reading

In the month of May, India added a dismal 8.3 million GSM mobile connections, lower by a million compared to April’s additions, bringing the total number of GSM connections to ... Continue_Reading

The waxing and waning of additions per month to India’s telecom market continue with April 2009 adding 11.9 million wireless connections – down by a third from 15.64 million in ... Continue_Reading

After January’s record addition of 9.7 million GSM cellular subscribers, February’s addition of 9,184,944 subscribers has come as a disappointment. The total number of GSM subscribers is now 277.1 million, ... Continue_Reading

A few weeks ago, a senior exec working with a mobile operator gave me his take on when Mobile Number Portability (MNP) would be implemented in India – not a ... Continue_Reading

The gloves came off at the TRAI Open House discussion on regulating Mobile VAS, and despite the sedate start, VAS companies and mobile operators were clearly at loggerheads with each ... Continue_Reading