5 million GSM customers added in India in May

5 million GSM customers added in India in May

India continues to shine as a growing telecom market as the market saw an addition of around 5 million GSM customers during the month of May. With this, the total mobile user base in the country has touched an impressive 130.6 million customers.

Cellular Operators’ Association of India represents the GSM service providers in the market and they confirmed that the market saw an addition of 5.04 million new users during the month of May.

The month of April had seen an addition of 4.13 million new GSM customers in the Indian market. If we add the number of new customers generated by the CDMA market, the Indian market is adding around 6 million new mobile customers every month making it the fastest growing mobile market in the world.

Bharti Airtel dominates the scenario and they gained 1.85 million customers in May. With this, Airtel is serving close to around 40 million customers. Hutch is another major GSM player and they added 1.51 million users in May.

Hutch also managed to overtake BSNL to become the second largest GSM service provider in the market. BSNL managed to add just around 238,553 users in May.