TRAI Report Card November 2015: BSNL Market Share Increased, Added 9.3 Lakhs Of New Customers With Monthly Growth Of 1.16%

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the latest telecom subscription data as on 30th November 2015. As we reported earlier, the market share of state run PSU, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is continuously increasing in the month of November 2015 also.

TRAI Report Card Noveber 2015: BSNL market share increased, added 9.3 lakhs of new customers with monthly growth of 1.16%

As per the latest TRAI report, BSNL added more than 9.3 lakhs of new mobile customers in the month of November 2015 with monthly growth of 1.16%. The performance of BSNL in wireless subscriber addition and monthly growth rate is really encouraging and the PSU managed to maintain its position in the Top Five during November 2015.

TRAI Report Card November 2015: BSNL market share increased, added 9.3 lakhs of new customers with monthly growth of 1.16%-1

Performance of BSNL in net addition of Wireless Subscribers from July 2015 on wards

Month & Year	Net Addition of Wireless Subscribers by BSNL	Monthly Growth Rate of BSNL	Market Share of BSNL
July 2015	4.8 lakhs	0.62%	7.92%
August 2015	8.1 lakhs	1.04%	7.95%
September 2015	10.8 lakhs	1.33%	8.00%
October 2015	7.27 lakhs	0.91%	8.01%
November 2015	9.3 lakhs	1.16%	8.06%

Among BSNL units, all telecom circles achieved positive growth in wireless subscriber addition except Jammu & Kashmir (-2623) during the month of November 2015. The best performers are Maharashtra (+1,66,817), UP East (+1,27,269), Karnataka (+83,467), UP West (+75,213) and Orissa (+69,285).

TRAI Report Card November 2015: BSNL market share increased, added 9.3 lakhs of new customers with monthly growth of 1.16%-2

BSNL holds the No.1 position in Landline segment with 59.72% market share. Airtel holds the No.1 position in Broadband segment (Wired + Wireless) position with 30.68% market share and Vodafone at second position with 25.53% market share as on 30th November 2015.

The total number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1029.34 million at the end of October 2015 to 1035.18 million at the end of November 2015, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.57%.

TRAI Report Card November 2015: BSNL market share increased, added 9.3 lakhs of new customers with monthly growth of 1.16%-3

Total wireless subscriber base increased from 1003.49 million at the end of October 2015 to 1009.46 million at the end of November 2015, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.59%.

As on 30th November 2015, the private access service providers held 91.58% market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two PSUs access service providers, held only 8.42% market share.

TRAI Report Card November 2015: BSNL market share increased, added 9.3 lakhs of new customers with monthly growth of 1.16%-4

The total number of broadband subscribers in India, increased from 125.22 million at the end of October 2015 to 131.49 million at the end of November 2015 with monthly growth rate of 5.01%.

Top
Five service providers constituted 83.59% market share of total
broadband subscribers at the end of November 2015. These service
providers were Bharti Airtel (30.68 million), Vodafone (25.53 million),
Idea Cellular Ltd (21.25 million), BSNL (19.87 million) and Reliance
Communications Group (12.59 million).

In Wired Broadband segment, BSNL holds the No.1 position with 9.93 million customers, followed by Bharati Airtel with 1.64 million customers.

Top Five Wired Broadband Service providers as on 30th November 2015

1.   BSNL (9.93 million)
2.   Bharti Airtel (1.64 million)
3.   MTNL (1.13 million)
4.   Atria Convergence Technologies (0.84 million)
5.   YOU Broadband (0.50 million)

Top Five Wireless Broadband Service providers as on 30th November 2015

1.   Bharti Airtel (29.04 million)
2.   Vodafone (25.52 million)
3.   Idea Cellular (21.23 million)
4.   Reliance Communications (12.47 million)
5.   BSNL (9.94 million)

Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

In the month of November 2015, a total of 5.19 million subscribers submitted their requests for MNP. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 181.50 million at the end of October 2015 to 186.69 million at the end of November 2015.

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