Mobile users cross 5cr-mark

The addition of mobile users continued its declining trend with only 16.59 lakh new subscribers added in February even as the mobile subscriber base touched 5.07 crore by the end of the month.

Of the 16.59 lakh new users, CDMA-based mobile companies added 5.29 lakh users, and GSM players added 11.30 lakh new susbcribers.

The mobile subscriber base was 4.9 crore in January with 17.66 lakh new subscribers added in the month while 19.12 lakh new mobile users had joined the list in December.

The total subscriber base stood at 1.1 crore in the CDMA category as per the latest figures released by the Association of Unified Service Providers of India. In January, 4.96 lakh customers were added, the association said.

GSM-based cellular subscriber base stood at 3.97 crore in February, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Associaion of India.

Bharti had a cellular subscriber figure of 1.06 crore in February  - a market share of 26.79%. It had a subscriber base of 1.02 crore in January.

Hutch added 2.15 lakh customers in February, and had a total customer base of 76.46 lakh. It had a market-share of 19.22% in February.