Telecom major Bharti Airtel led Internet access through mobile phones with 26.16 per cent market share, followed by Vodafone - 23.34 per cent. Idea Cellular's share was 18.94 per cent and Reliance Communications had 16.25 per cent market share during the reported quarter.

Shares of rest of the players in mobile segment stood in single digit.

The number of Internet subscribers, except through access by mobile devices, increased from 21.61 million at the end of March to 21.89 million at the end of June, up 1.3 per cent.

Broadband subscribers, excluding mobile devices, grew by 0.98 per cent to 15.2 million at the end of June.

While number of narrow-band subscribers, where download speed is less than 256 kilobit per second, excluding access by mobile devices, increased to 6.69 million at the end of June 2013, registering a quarterly growth of 1.98 per cent.

State-owned BSNL dominated the wireline Internet subscriber market with 60.13 per cent share. RCom stood next to BSNL with 11.86 per cent market share. For rest of the players in wireline segment, the share remained in single digit.

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