India Mobile Subscriber Stats: 976M Total, 869M Active, 160M MNP Requests [May 2015]
by The Daily Eye Team July 22 2015, 4:37 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secsTRAI has released their monthly Indian Telecom subscription report, and according to it, India has total of 1002 million telecom subscribers, out of which 975.78 are wireless (mobile) and 26.27 are wireline (landline). In May 2015, a total of 2.44 million new mobile subscribers were added, whereas wireline saw a fall of 0.1 million. Most of the new mobile subscriber additions came from rural areas. Interestingly, April and May has been months of much slower growth. For comparison, March 2015 had seen addition of 9.31 mln whereas and Feb had seen 8.24 mln new mobile subscriber additions.