India's broadband base has crossed 11 million - month on month, it grew 2.7% to 11.21 million, from 10.92 million at the end of December 2010, according to the Telecom Regulator TRAI. In comparison, the country added more mobile connections this month, yet again, than its total broadband base: India’s mobile connection base has reported a month on month increase of 2.52 percent (18.99 million) to 771.18 million by the end of January 2011. Of these, 512.26 million are termed as urban connections, with a wireless urban teledensity of 143.36%. Rural teledensity is still quite low at 31.05%, with 258.93 of the wireless connections from rural India. Mobile Operator Leaderboard For January 2011: - Bharti Airtel added 3.3 million connections taking its connection base to 155.8 million. - Reliance Communications added 3.2 million connections taking its connection base to 128.87 million. - Vodafone added 3.1 million connections, taking its base is 127.36 million. Vodafone and RCOM are neck-and-neck. - BSNL added 2.10 million connections, taking its base to 88.81 million. - Idea Cellular added 2.51 million connection its base is 84.28 million. - Among new telecom operators, Uninor continued to gain momentum, with 1.79 million connections added, taking its base to 20.30 million. The TRAI has published "the Peak VLR data" for the month of January 2011 at 71%, in order to determine the active connections. However, the TRAI has picked a 72 hour time period of peak activity during the month, and shared the total number of active connections for that…
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