Dead Presidents! - India Equity Research: India Wireless

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 494.07mn at the end of August 2009 from 479.07mn in July 2009, thereby registering a growth rate of 3.13%. With this, the overall tele-density in India reaches 42.27 Wireless Segment. Wireless subscriber base increased from 441.66mn in July 2009 to 456.74mn at the end of August 2009 at a monthly growth rate of 3.4%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 39.08. Wireline subscriber base declined from 37.41mn in July 2009 to 37.33mn at the end of August 2009. BSNL and MTNL, the PSU operators, own 85.8% of the wireline market share. While major private wireline service providers have increased their subscriber base, BSNL-MTNL lost 0.14mn subscribers in the month. Wireline tele-density is 3.19. Total broadband subscriber base increased from 6.8mn in July 2009 to 6.98mn in August 2009.

Monday, June 01, 2009

India Wireless

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Q1 wireless subscriber base up 10% QoQ

The total subscriber base of the wireline and wireless services reached 325.79mn for the quarter ended June as against 300.49mn for the quarter ending March, thus registering an increase of 8.4% during the quarter. The tele-density for the quarter ended June reached 28.33 compared to 26.22 for the quarter ending March. The subscriber base for wireless services increased from 261.07mn for the quarter ended March to 286.87mn for quarter ended June. Subscriber base of wireline service decreased from 39.42mn for the quarter ended March to 38.92mn for the quarter ended June. For GSM segment, all India blended ARPU per month decreased by 9.3% from Rs264 in March to Rs239 in June. For CDMA segment, all India blended ARPU for the quarter ended June was Rs139 compared to Rs159 for the quarter ended March.