India added 7.96 million active mobile connections in October 2017, with Airtel, Idea, Reliance Jio and Vodafone accounting for 77% of total active mobile connections in India, according to data released by TRAI. The Active connection data represents peak VLR (Visitor Location Register) data for the month. Some stats: – There were 1,025.7 million active connections in the month of October 2017. – Strangely, Idea has 102.83% of connections active on its network – the highest among all telcos. TRAI says the percentage of active connections is more than 100% due to in-roamers i.e. subscribers from other operators roaming in Idea’s network. – Airtel has the second highest active connection base of 98.09%, followed by Vodafone at 94.11%. In terms of the number of active connections, Airtel leads with 279.75 million connections followed by Idea at 196.27 million connections. Mobile Operator Leaderboard For October 2017 (Total Connections): – Reliance Jio added 7.3 million connections, taking its connection base to 145.96 million. – Airtel added 3 million connections, taking its connection base to 285 million. – Vodafone added 0.87 million connections, taking its connection base to 208.3 million. Statewise data – In terms of active connections, Maharashtra leads with 98.85% active connections, followed by Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Kerala. Himachal Pradesh has just 79.11% active connections, the lowest among all circles. – UP (East) has the most number of connections, with 104.2 million connections (104,203,535 connections). Maharashtra is second with 94.2 million connections (94,230,979 connections) and Tamil Nadu is third…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...