The PSU positioned itself in the Top Three in monthly growth rate of wireless subscribers beating the major private players like – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. In January 2016, BSNL added more than 9.3 lakhs of new mobile customers and thereby increasing its market share from 8.16% to 8.20%.
As we reported earlier, the performance of BSNL in wireless subscriber addition and monthly growth rate is continuously increasing from July 2015 on wards – after the launch of FREE All India Roaming Scheme.
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% |
December 2015 | 11.5 lakhs | 1.41% | 8.16% |
January 2016 | 9.3 lakhs | 1.12% | 8.20% |
Among BSNL units, all telecom circles achieved positive growth in wireless subscriber addition except West Bengal (-3,12,454) and Karnataka (-66,530) during the month of January 2016. The best performers are UP East (+1,97,413), Maharashtra (+1,37,914), Madhya Pradesh (1,12,576), UP West (+1,18,939) and Bihar (+1,00,001).
As on 31st January 2016, the private access service providers held 91.45% market share of the wireless subscribers whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two PSUs access service providers, held only 8.55% market share.
Five service providers constituted 83.25% market share of total
broadband subscribers at the end of January 2016. These service
providers were Bharti Airtel (32.70 million), Vodafone (26.24 million),
Idea Cellular Ltd (22.04 million), BSNL (20.16 million) and Reliance
Communications Group (15.49 million).
1. BSNL (9.9 million)
2. Bharti Airtel (1.68 million)
3. MTNL (1.12 million)
4. Atria Convergence Technologies (0.89 million)
5. YOU Broadband (0.51 million)
1. Bharti Airtel (31.02 million)
2. Vodafone (26.23 million)
3. Idea Cellular (22.04 million)
4. Reliance Communications (15.37 million)
5. BSNL (10.26 million)
In the month of January 2016, a total of 5.62 million subscribers submitted their requests for MNP. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 194.01 million at the end of December 2015 to 199.62 million at the end of January 2016.
