Airtel India has reported a mobile Internet base of 39.32 million connections at the end of the quarter ended 30th June 2014 (Q1-FY15), following a reclassification of a Mobile Internet user as one that has used at least 1 MB over GPRS/3G in the last 30 days. This follows a similar move by Idea Cellular last quarter. Airtel's Mobile Internet base has grown 10% quarter on quarter from 35.6 million (reclassified) last quarter. Year on year, the Mobile Internet connection base grew 52% from 25.87 million. 3G connections increased to 12.53 million, up 22% quarter on quarter from 10.22 million, and doubling year on year from 6.23 million. This is still not as fast as Airtel would have liked. Mobile Internet revenues for Airtel in India, increased year on year by 68.2% to at Rs 1,559.4 crore, accounting for 12.4% of its total India revenues for the quarter. Growing fast, but not as fast as it appeared This is an important shift, and provides context that perhaps the growth in Mobile Internet isn't as stark as it had appeared: Prior to the reclassification, Airtel had reported 58.08 million Mobile Internet customers last quarter, which means that as many as 22.48 million mobile Internet connections, last quarter, had used less than 1 MB. Mobile Internet Data Data usage per connection grew by 7% to 495 MB for the quarter, up from 464 MB in the previous quarter and up 26% from 392 MB in the same quarter last year. Note that previous figures are not comparable, since…
