Mobile user base dips for second straight month, shrinks by 1.82 million

The number of mobile users has fallen twice in the past eight months now, latest fall concentrated in urban India

The number of mobile phone users in India decreased by 1.82 million in October to 1.14 billion, latest data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) showed. The fall represented the second straight month of decline in subscribers.

Users in the segment had reduced by 3.66 million in September, shrinking for the first time in seven months.

Prior to that, the number of subscribers had last dipped in February, by 3.7 million. In recent months, it rose by 1.08 million in August, 640,000 in July and 1.89 million in June.

But unlike September, when the fall in users