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Indian Telecom: 3.9 million new mobile GSM customers in March 2006

The Indian telecom market continues its phenomenal growth as 3.9 million new mobile customers were added to this already huge market base. We are already the world’s fastest growing telecom market and this is a new record for adding new mobile users in the Indian market.

Cellular Operators’ Association of India said in a statement that the past month’s additions boosted the total GSM customer base to about 69.1 million. This group represents the country’s nine GSM carriers.

In fact, if we add the new customer base using CDMA mobile technologies, India added a total of 5.14 million mobile customers in the month of March. The total number of mobile users (GSM and CDMA) as a result touches a phenomenal 90.54 million.

The competition in the Indian market is intense which has resulted in some of the cheapest tariff rates for mobile telephony in the world. The mobile service providers are still expanding and covering the rural Indian villages where two-thirds of India’s billion-plus people live.

This provides a huge prospective customer base for the future.