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India adds 20.3 mn telephone users in March

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's telecom density rose to 52.74 percent in March this year as the country added 20.3 million subscribers during the month, the telecom regulator said here Monday.

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"The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 621.28 million at the end of March 2010 from 600.98 Million in February 2010, thereby registering a growth rate of 3.38 percent. With this, the overall teledensity in India reaches 52.74 percent," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in a statement.

In February, the teledensity stood at 51.05 percent.

While the subscriber base in wireless segment increased from 564.02 million in February to 584.32 million in March, the number of users in wireline segment remained unchanged at 36.96 million, the statement added.

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The broadband subscriber base increased from 8.59 million in February to 8.75 million in March 2010, a growth of around two percent.

In the wireless segment, Vodafone added 3,628,484 subscribers in March, taking its total number of users to 10,085,835. Bharti Airtel added 3,000,109 users to reach 127,619,314 subscriber base, data showed.

In the wireline segment, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd remained the biggest player, holding a 75.31 percent market share as on March 31, 2010.

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