Driven by the declining call rates and affordable handsets, the total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA and WLL(F)) base witnessed an addition of 8.94 million subscribers during the month to stand at 286.86 million. The net addition in the month of May stood at 8.62 million.
On the other hand, the total wireline subscribers in India continued its downward fall as the subscriber base toppled further by 0.3 per cent to 38.92 million in the month of June 2008 as against 39.05 million subscribers in May 2008.
The overall tele-density in the country rose to 28.33 per cent at the end of June 2008 as compared to 27.59 per cent in May 2008.
Meanwhile the total broadband penetration in the country rose to 4.38 million in June with the addition of 110,000 subscribers in June. The broadband penetration in March 2008 stood at 4.15 million according to Trai data.
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Bharti Airtel added over 2.5 million subscribers to in June to take its subscriber base to 69.38 million--3.8 per cent growth from 66.83 million in March. Anil Ambani led, Reliance Communications saw an increase of 1.7 million for the same time period reach a total subscriber base of 50.79 million by the end of June, 2008.
Meanwhile during June this year, Vodafone also added about 1.7 million subscribers. Aditya Birla Group owned, Idea Cellular added 1.05 million to their total subscriber base, while the subscriber base of Spice Communications (recently merged with Idea Cellular) rose by 50,000 to reach a subscriber base of 4.55 million.