Telecom industry reports a downfall in subscribers addition (India)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian telecom industry has reported a downfall in subscribers’ addition for the second month in a row, with 11.59 million wireless subscribers being added in May 2009.

This is against an addition of 11.90 million wireless users in April, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said. Total 11.44 million telephone connections (wireless and wireline) were added in May compared to 11.75 million connections added in the previous month. With this, the telecom subscriber base stood at 452.91 million in May against 441.47 million in April.

The overall teledensity, calculated on the basis of the number of people using phones for a population of 100, has reached 38.88 at the end of May against 37.94 in April, Trai said.

In may 2009, the subscriber base stood at 415.25 million with the addition of 11.59 million wireless subscribers.