Bangalore: The official statistics recorded 929.37 million mobile phone subscribers in India by May 31.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report says that the wireless user base showed a monthly increase of 0.91% in May from 921.02 million figured in April. Thus the total number of telephone users, also including the landline users, registers a growth of 0.84 %, i.e., 960.90 million. Now the increase in the overall tele-density in India would be 79.28 percent.

TRAI statistics also provides the total number of subscribers of individual service providers. Data by sectoral regulator, TRAI says that Bharti Airtel stood at 185.3 million, reliance Communications at 154 million, Idea Cellular at 115.97 million and Vodafone at 152.5 million. Whereas, Uninor reached at 45 million and Aircel at 64.4 million. Even Tata Teleservices has overcome the loss of 0.51 million users showed in April  by pulling in 0.3 million new users in the next month.

Meanwhile, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) lost 81,809 and 1,71,951 users respectively to go down with only 97.7 million and 5.6 million users.

Total number of broadband subscribers also maintained the same increasing fashion as it increased from 13.95 million to 14.31 million at the end of May 2012, thus exhibiting a monthly growth of 2.6 percent.

Even after the cancellations of the licenses, in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, most of the major private service providers have succeeded in maintaining or rather improving their market position.