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The country added a whopping 3.55 crore wireless telephone users during the quarter ended on June 30 this year, taking the wireless subscriber base to 42.72 crore.
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The wireless user base grew by 9.06 per cent during the April-June quarter of this year to 42.72 crore from 39.17 crore in the preceding quarter, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in a statement.
The total telecom subscriber base (wireline and wireless) touched 46.48 crore for the quarter ended June this year from 42.97 crore in the quarter ended March, registering an increase of 8.17 per cent.
The tele-density (number of telephones per 100 people) for the quarter ended June reached 39.86 compared to 36.98 in the previous one, TRAI said.
However, the all-India blended Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) per month for the GSM segment (full mobility) decreased by 10 per cent to Rs 185 in June from Rs 205 in March, while the ARPU for the CDMA segment during the same period dipped 7.2 per cent to Rs 92 from Rs 99.
The subscriber base of wireline service has declined to 3.75 crore at the end of June, taking the wireline tele-density to 3.22.