India's broadband connection base increased 1.36% to 14.50 million at the end of June 2012, from 14.31 million at the end of May, according to the Indian Telecom regulator TRAI. At the same time, the mobile connection base (including multi-SIM and inactive connections) increased to 934.09 Million in June, up from 929.36 Million in May. This is an increase of 0.51%, but on a comparatively larger base. 74.49% of mobile connections are reportedly active - a total of 695.80 million connections, but this includes multi-SIM users, so the total mobile user base is likely to be smaller. Inactive Connections Being Weeded Out? Four telecom operators reported a decline in their connection base during the month: - Tata Teleservices' connection base declined by 1.61% (1.31 million) to 47.52 million connections. - Loop Telecom's connection base declined 3.37% (0.1 million) to 3.15 million connections. - Videocon's connection base declined by 10.6% (0.66 million) to 5.57 million connections - HFCL's base declined by 5266 connections What's worth nothing is that for three of these telcos, the active user base went up for the quarter: Tata Tele's active base was up 0.42 million, Loop's was up 69,457, and HFCL's was up 0.67 million. We wonder if inactive connections are now being weeded out. Videocon, though, reported a decline in its active connection base of 84,348 connections. Active User Base of Telecom Operators The Active connection data represents peak VLR (Visitor Location Register) data for the month, and excludes the CDMA VLR data for BSNL, which…
