India is expected to have added over 13.94 million connections in March 2010, according to the monthly report from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). 13.94 million is the minimum number, assuming that Reliance Telecom added at least some subscribers for the month. According to the COAI report, Reliance Telecom is the odd one out among GSM operators in India, and has not reported its numbers to the COAI since January 2010. Reliance Communications has both GSM and CDMA operations. COAI does not report figures for Tata Teleservices, which also operates Tata Docomo. Thus, we do not consider COAI's market-share data to be representative of the true scenario. -- Vodafone-Essar had a month to remember as the company crossed (a reported) 100 million connections in March 2010, ending the month with 100.8 million connections, 3.62 million higher than the previous month. Vodafone is the second largest GSM operator, behind Bharti Airtel -- Bharti Airtel added 3 million connections during March, to end with 127.62 million connections. Idea Cellular ended the month 1.68 million connections higher, at 63.82 million, with maximum additions from Madhya Pradesh (231,704) and UP (West). -- PSUs BSNL has added 2.48 million connections in March, ending with 63.48 million; meanwhile, sister concern MTNL, which operates only in Mumbai and Delhi, added 87,420 new connections to take its base to 4.78 million. -- Loop Mobile added 74,651 in Mumbai, the only circle it operates in and has ------- million connections in total. New Telcos -- Aircel: ended the month with…
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