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New Delhi: India added 27.45 million mobile subscribers in the quarter ended March 31, taking the total number of connections to 261.07 million, new data showed Thursday.
Accordingly, the combined tele-density in the country rose to 26.22 percent, data released by the watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said.
This amounts to a growth of 11.75 percent in the wireless telephony market. The number of mobile telephones in the quarter ended Dec 31, 2007 was 233.62 million.
The 261.07 million telephones include 192.70 million GSM and 68.37 million CDMA connections.
While GSM operators clocked a combined growth rate of 11.89 percent, CDMA service providers registered a growth rate of 11.37 percent in the quarter.
Bharti Airtel retained its market position with the maximum number of subscribers. It operates in 23 circles offering GSM services with a market share of 23.74 percent.
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