India reaches 9 million 3G users
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 23 May 2011, 19:07 IST   |    1 Comments
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India reaches 9 million 3G users
Bangalore: The Third generation technology (3G) is been launched in India about four months back and since then the telecom companies have seen a boost in the number of subscribers. About 9 million 3G users are added. They have also set the target to cross around 100 million 3G connection by 2015. According to the telecom regulatory authority of India,(TRAI) about 811.59 million people have mobile connections till March 2011. India has also added 11.1 million GSM connections in April 2011. Bharti Airtel leads in the race with 3 million subscribers, Tata DoCoMo takes the second place with 1.5 million users, BSNL, Idea Cellular and Vodafone have about a million 3G subscribers each however reliance communications has not disclosed the numbers. But initially consumers have reported poor quality of the 3G service and they have experienced. They complained of poor speed and irregular connectivity. 3G service was expected to deliver data speed of around 500 to 600 kbps, but most of the time the operator failed to deliver the speed. Moreover, the high cost for the roaming facility also matters a lot to the consumers. Most of the operators are charging 15 per MB of data even if they users are on roaming on the same network. However, the operators are saying that these are the slight hiccups and they will be solving the problems soon.

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