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Vodafone Essar crosses 100mn subscriber base in india
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Vodafone Essar India’s leading cellular services provider has announced on Tuesday that it has crossed the 100-million subscriber mark in India, becoming the third mobile operator in the country to do so after rivals ” Bharti Airtel” and “Reliance communications”. Also now vodafone Essar is the world’s fifth mobile operator with 100 million customers in a single country after China Mobile and China Unicom along with the other two domestic rivals.
“This is a significant achievement for us and reflects the trust customers have bestowed on the company. In the past three years, we have invested over Rs 20,000 crore to expand our operations to service customers in India,” Vodafone Essar Managing Director and CEO Marten Pieters said.
Starting with about 28 million subscribers across 16 circles in May 2007, Vodafone Essar has 100 million customers and has extended its footprint to all the 23 circles in the country. Now after attaining this milestone is second largest GSM operator in India after Bharti Airtel. Vodafone enjoy a market share of more than 23 % as Feb 2010. According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Vodafone Essar had 97.22 million subscribers at the end of February 2010 from 94.14 million in the previous month.
Reliance Communications achieves 100 mn subscribers in India
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Reliance Communications, Indian’s Largest Telecom service provider has announced a milestone of achieving a subscriber base ( GSM and CDMA ) of 100 million for its wireless services. With this, the company has become the fourth-largest operator in the world, serving 100 million customers in a single country. Rcom is expecting to double this subscriber base within next Three years.
“The landmark, 100-million mobile customer base makes us the youngest telecom operator to achieve this milestone in such a short span of time – seven years of operations,”, ”As we take the leap to achieve the 200 million mark, we will lead it from the front with more customer-centric innovations and service approach,” said group chairman Anil Ambani.
On this achievement, the company plans to take its broadband network with speeds of up to 3.1 mbps beyond 60 cities within the next 100 days and plans to start a customised ’100 Million Caller Tune’ in 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages across the country.
Bharti airtel adds 2.85 million new mobile users in January
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Bharti Airtel, India’s no. 1 mobile operator adds 2.85 million new mobile subscribers in January 2010. Now Airtel has a total of 121.7 million user-base. Third-ranked Vodafone Essar, controlled by Vodafone, signed up 2.74 million mobile users in January, to boost its total to 94.1 million, Fifth-ranked Idea Cellular gained 2.28 million mobile subscribers, taking its total to 59.9 million. Revealed by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) website.
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