What's a few million when you have 934 million active mobile connections in India? The Active connection data represents peak VLR (Visitor Location Register) data for the month, so it includes users roaming from on another telecom operators network (For example, Airtel, Idea and Vodafone have Intra-circle roaming arrangements which allow 3G users from Airtel to roam on an Idea 3G network). These are counted as separate Internet connections, and there is also multi-SIM usage, so the number of connections should not be seen as active users. Some stats: - Airtel has the second highest active connection base of 97.53%, followed by Vodafone at 95.96%. – There were 934.03 million active connections in the month of April 2016. – Idea has 104.65% of connections active on its network - the highest among all telcos. TRAI says the percentage of active connections is…
