topped the list of all telecom service providers in the country leaving behind all other private
operators like – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. Growth of BSNL in March 2016 is 1.79% which is 2.5 times higher than the industry growth rate of
0.68%. In March 2016, BSNL added more than 15.19 lakhs of new mobile customers and thereby increasing its market share from 8.26% to 8.35%.
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% |
February 2016 | 13.9 lakhs | 1.67% | 8.26% |
March 2016 | 15.19 lakhs | 1.79% | 8.35% |
Among BSNL units, all telecom circles achieved positive growth in wireless subscriber addition except Karnataka (-17,205) in March 2016. The best performers are – UP East (+2,12,373), Bihar (+1,90,206), Rajasthan (+1,48,844), Kerala (+1,33,859), and Maharashtra (+1,29,682).
The total number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1051.88 million at the end of February 2016 to 1058.86 million at the end of March 2016, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.66%.
Total wireless subscriber base increased from 1026.66 million at the end of February 2016 to 1033.63 million at the end of March 2016, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.68%.
The total number of broadband subscribers in India, increased from 144.87 million at the end of February 2016 to 149.75 million at the end of March 2016 with monthly growth rate of 3.37%.
Top Five service providers constituted 83.52% market share of total broadband subscribers at the end of March 2016. These service providers were Bharti Airtel (38.47 million), Vodafone (27.76 million), Idea Cellular Ltd (22.92 million), BSNL (20.35 million) and Reliance Communications Group (15.57 million).
In Wired Broadband segment, BSNL holds the No.1 position with 9.94 million customers, followed by Bharati Airtel with 1.74 million customers.
1. BSNL (9.94 million)
2. Bharti Airtel (1.74 million)
3. MTNL (1.11 million)
4. Atria Convergence Technologies (0.94 million)
5. YOU Broadband (0.53 million)
1. Bharti Airtel (36.74 million)
2. Vodafone (27.75 million)
3. Idea Cellular (22.92 million)
4. Reliance Communications (15.45 million)
5. BSNL (10.41 million)
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
In the month of March 2016, a total of 4.40 million subscribers submitted their requests for MNP. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 204.73 million at the end of February 2016 to 209.13 million at the end of March 2016.
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2 Comments
All the best bsnl. Great service in kayamkulam (Mavelikkara SSA). Zero broadand connection dropping. The free roaming for mobile number is a great benefit. I am using BSNL mobile mostly in roaming ,the rates are pretty cheap(20p for 1min FNF plan). The 20 mb 3G for 4 Rs is an added benifit. Thanks!! You are improving a lot. Please remove the unwanted 68 Rs- 1Gb – 1 day plan,which seems useless for general users like me.
2G speed is dead slow-4 kbps but 3G is satisfactory getting around 250 kbps(signal dependent) :))