Growth of Cellular Subscribers: March-April 2005

Circle/City	Operator	March 2005	April 2005	Absolute change	% change
Metros
Delhi	Bharti Cellular	1,615,522	1,631,764	16,242	1.01
Delhi	Hutchison-Essar	1,467,973	1,482,987	15,014	1.02
Delhi	MTNL	401,678	441,586	39,908	9.94
Delhi	Idea Cellular	608,505	609,988	1,483	0.24
Total		4,093,678	4,166,325	72,647	1.77
Mumbai	BPL Mobile	1,227,141	1,233,283	6,142	0.50
Mumbai	Hutchison Max	1,512,323	1,517,516	5,193	0.34
Mumbai	MTNL	480,018	520,033	40,015	8.34
Mumbai	Bharti Cellular	745,663	768,914	23,251	3.12
Total		3,965,145	4,039,746	74,601	1.88
Chennai	Aircel Cellular	541,340	546,478	5,138	0.95
Chennai	Bharti Cellular	468,077	468,310	233	0.05
Chennai	Hutchison-Essar	205,097	195,122	-9,975	-4.86
Chennai	BSNL	341,240	376,258	35,018	10.26
Total		1,555,754	1,586,168	30,414	1.95
Kolkata	Bharti Cellular	503,282	503,840	558	0.11
Kolkata	Hutchison Telecom	639,522	644,615	5,093	0.80
Kolkata	BSNL	249,014	267,775	18,761	7.53
Kolkata	Reliance Internet	730	752	22	3.01
Total		1,392,548	1,416,982	24,434	1.75
All Metros		11,007,125	11,209,221	202,096	1.84
A Circle
Maharashtra	BPL Cellular	543,363	548,674	5,311	0.98
Maharashtra	Idea	1,271,337	1,284,840	13,503	1.06
Maharashtra	Bharti Cellular	651,784	671,615	19,831	3.04
Maharashtra	BSNL	852,726	975,991	123,265	14.46
Total		3,319,210	3,481,120	161,910	4.88
Gujarat	Fascel	1,256,915	1,276,715	19,800	1.58
Gujarat	Idea	658,110	666,727	8,617	1.31
Gujarat	Bharti Cellular	506,671	542,857	36,186	7.14
Gujarat	BSNL	666,949	679,304	12,355	1.85
Total		3,088,645	3,165,603	76,958	2.49
Andhra Pradesh	Idea	650,853	667,545	16,692	2.56
Andhra Pradesh	Bharti Cellular	939,457	969,355	29,898	3.18
Andhra Pradesh	Hutchison-Essar	400,167	413,348	13,181	3.29
Andhra Pradesh	BSNL	813,333	815,348	2,015	0.25
Total		2,803,810	2,865,596	61,786	2.20
Karnataka	Bharti Cellular	1,240,436	1,287,491	47,055	3.79
Karnataka	Spice Communications	311,345	310,302	-1,043	-0.33
Karnataka	Hutchison-Essar	559,879	571,704	11,825	2.11
Karnataka	BSNL	709,362	718,613	9,251	1.30
Total		2,821,022	2,888,110	67,088	2.38
Tamil Nadu	BPL Cellular	414,673	417,381	2,708	0.65
Tamil Nadu	Aircel	1,214,010	1,223,165	9,155	0.75
Tamil Nadu	BSNL	903,699	910,663	6,964	0.77
Tamil Nadu	Bharti Cellular	330,651	343,115	12,464	3.77
Total		2,863,033	2,894,324	31,291	1.09
A Circle		14,895,720	15,294,753	399,033	2.68
B Circle
Kerala	Idea Mobile Communications	556,985	570,905	13,920	2.50
Kerala	BPL Cellular	390,210	392,631	2,421	0.62
Kerala	Bharti Cellular	343,336	360,480	17,144	4.99
Kerala	BSNL	801,940	802,202	262	0.03
Total		2,092,471	2,126,218	33,747	1.61
Punjab	Spice Communications	1,127,479	1,138,808	11,329	1
Punjab	Bharti Cellular	1,277,664	1,295,244	17,580	1.38
Punjab	BSNL	385,575	408,316	22,741	5.90
Punjab	Hutchison-Essar	149,493	152,101	2,608	1.74
Total		2,940,211	2,994,469	54,258	1.85
Haryana	Idea Mobile Communications	192,805	195,066	2,261	1.17
Haryana	Aircel Digilink	184,002	201,013	17,011	9.25
Haryana	Bharti Cellular	264,837	278,718	13,881	5.24
Haryana	BSNL	286,736	287,083	347	0.12
Total		928,380	961,880	33,500	3.61
Uttar Pradesh (West)	Idea Mobile Communications	634,515	656,248	21,733	3.43
Uttar Pradesh (West)	Bharti Cellular	381,787	398,556	16,769	4.39
Uttar Pradesh (West)	BSNL	512,454	509,191	-3,263	-0.64
Uttar Pradesh (West)	Hutchison-Essar	153,034	173,899	20,865	13.63
Total		1,681,790	1,737,894	56,104	3.34
Uttar Pradesh (East)	Aircel Digilink	814,025	846,787	32,762	4.02
Uttar Pradesh (East)	BSNL	724,991	725,884	893	0.12
Uttar Pradesh (East)	Bharti Cellular	207,151	239,140	31,989	15.44
Total		1,746,167	1,811,811	65,644	3..76
Rajasthan	Aircel Digilink	327,041	339,196	12,155	3.72
Rajasthan	Hexacom	505,695	543,915	38,220	7.56
Rajasthan	BSNL	371,492	369,973	-1,519	-0.41
Total		1,204,228	1,253,084	48,856	4.06
Madhya Pradesh	Idea	496,583	502,164	5,581	1.12
Madhya Pradesh	Reliance Telecom	312,817	314,322	1,505	0.48
Madhya Pradesh	Bharti Cellular	234,124	246,778	12,654	5.4
Madhya Pradesh	BSNL	296,050	329,147	33,097	11.18
Total		1,339,574	1,392,411	52,837	3.94
West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Reliance Telecom	154,959	161,121	6,162	3.98
West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands	BSNL	291,943	292,430	487	0.17
West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Bharti Cellular	125,861	139,183	13,322	10.58
West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Hutchison Telecom	128,249	142,294	14,045	10.95
Total		701,012	735,028	34,016	4.85
B Circle		12,633,833	13,012,795	378,962	3
C Circle
Himachal Pradesh	Bharti Cellular	195,649	203,405	7,756	3.96
Himachal Pradesh	Reliance Telecom	34,743	39,391	4,648	13.38
Himachal Pradesh	BSNL	102,800	102,517	-283	-0.28
Total		333,192	345,313	12,121	3.64
Bihar	Reliance Telecom	360,758	378,907	18,149	5.03
Bihar	BSNL	405,447	406,308	861	0.21
Bihar	Bharti Cellular	203,782	224,345	65,365	–
Total		969,987	1,009,560	39,573	4.08
Orissa	Reliance Telecom	120,750	126,733	5,983	4.95
Orissa	BSNL	293,085	294,300	1,215	0.41
Orissa	Bharti Cellular	132,375	140,436	8,061	5.74
Total		546,210	561,469	15,259	2.79
Assam	Reliance Telecom	104,943	114,268	9,325	8.89
Assam	BSNL	152,046	155,912	3,866	2.54
Assam	Bharti Cellular	545	4,813	4,268	783.12
Total		257,534	274,993	17,459	6.78
North East	Reliance Telecom	26,265	29,824	3,559	13.55
North East	Bharti Cellular	358	2,439	2,081	0
North East	BSNL	95,403	104,468	9,065	9.50
Total		122,026	136,731	14,705	12.05
Jammu & Kashmir	BSNL	150,740	152,004	1,264	0.84
Jammu & Kashmir	Bharti Cellular	109,573	124,657	15,084	13.77
Total		260,313	276,661	16,348	6.28
C Circle		2,489,262	2,604,727	115,465	4.64
All India		41,025,940	42,121,496	1,095,556	2.67

Subscriber base as on April 30, 2005

Operator/Circle	Wireline	WLL(FWT)	Digital mobile	Total
Bharti Telenet
Andhra Pradesh	740	–	–	740
Chennai	128,934	–	–	128,934
Delhi	153,673	–	–	153,673
Gujarat	102	–	–	102
Haryana	115,914	–	–	115,914
Karnataka	144,361	–	–	144,361
Kerala	19	–	–	19
Kolkata	10	–	–	10
Madhya Pradesh	232,544	25,569	–	258,113
Maharashtra	90	–	–	90
Mumbai	125	–	–	125
Tamil Nadu	61,378	–	–	61,378
Uttar Pradesh (East)	54	–	–	54
Uttar Pradesh (West)	10,755	–	–	10,755
Total	848,699	25,569	–	874,268
Reliance Infocomm
Andhra Pradesh	5,151	65,001	873,981	944,133
Bihar	70	18,210	219,403	237,683
Chennai	4,331	26,560	421,175	452,066
Delhi	9,932	174,096	1,133,972	1,318,000
Haryana	197	36,370	200,272	236,839
Himachal Pradesh	0	1,270	4,470	5,740
Karnataka	11,845	53,805	636,178	701,828
Kerala	2,997	138,809	455,046	596,852
Kolkata	8,164	83,603	476,167	567,934
Madhya Pradesh	2,051	33,599	394,730	430,380
Maharashtra	5,164	112,010	744,369	861,543
Mumbai	13,003	140,013	930,752	1,083,768
Orisaa	115	20,493	125,631	146,239
Punjab	5,230	94,426	480,307	579,963
Rajasthan	916	51,975	395,764	448,655
Tamil Nadu	2,371	49,124	506,425	557,920
Uttar Pradesh (East)	3,195	56,971	502,725	562,891
Uttar Pradesh (West)	191	65,208	347,018	412,417
West Bengal	45	16,118	132,699	148,862
Gujarat	17,691	111,963	631,386	761,040
Total	92,659	1,349,624	9,612,470	11,054,753
HFCL Infotel
Punjab	142,387	55,501	54,578	252,466
Total	142,387	55,501	54,578	252,466
Shyam Telelink
Rajasthan	50,960	111,531	27,846	190,337
Total	50,960	111,531	27,846	190,337
Tata Teleservices
Andhra Pradesh	114,277	290,011	185,954	590,242
Bihar	–	18,472	15,984	34,456
Chennai	879	172,618	44,557	218,054
Delhi	9,235	379,572	230,670	619,477
Gujarat	25,272	265,334	106,604	397,210
Karnataka	6,895	255,642	110,100	372,637
Orissa	–	3,737	11,578	15,315
Rajasthan	–	24,499	28,673	53,172
Tamil Nadu	103	138,906	30,540	169,549
Punjab	–	52,408	36,771	89,179
Haryana	–	16,755	20,489	37,244
Himachal Pradesh	–	3,106	2,959	6,065
Uttar Pradesh (East)	–	17,661	27,928	45,589
Uttar Pradesh (West)	–	21,380	24,026	45,406
Kolkata	–	53,139	34,279	87,418
West Bengal	–	2,381	4,035	6,416
Madhya Pradesh	–	28,232	13,899	42,131
Kerala	–	67,402	–	67,402
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)
Mumbai	187,897	300,329	165,329	653,555
Maharashtra	39,321	270,071	107,905	417,297
Total	383,879	2,381,655	1,202,280	3,967,814
Grand total	1,518,584	3,923,880	10,897,174	163,396,380