The GSM operators added over 93 lakh subscribers in the month of August, taking the total cellular subscriber base to 33.54 crore.

Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel topped the subscribers figure with 10.79 crore users and a 32.19 per cent market share. It added 28.18 lakh new users in August 2009, according to the data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).

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Vodafone Essar added 21.94 lakh new subscribers in the same month of August, with a GSM userbase of 8 crore. The telco has a market share of 24.11 per cent.

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), which is struggling with its expansion plans due to delayed tenders, has added 13.56 lakh new users in the said month, about 3 lakhs less than its July addition. Its total GSM subscriber base stood at 5.2 crore with a market share of 15.52 per cent.

These total subscriber figures exclude Anil Ambani's Reliance Telecom.

Idea Cellular, the fourth-largest operator by subscribers, added 15.41 lakh subscribers in August, with its userbase touching 5 crore.

Aircel, which is expanding its network on a pan-India basis, added 13.13 lakh new users, taking its subscriber base to 2.44 crore.

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