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Again and again, I can’t help but find mobile-related numbers from China and India impressive.
Apparently, there were 3.9 new connections every second during the month of September. Thanks to the new subscriber additions, the total market reached 310.62 million users with a penetration rate of 27.5%.
Leading operator Bharti set a new market record for monthly net additions with a figure of 2.70 million. Other operators also saw their subscriber base growing in September: Vodafone added 1.86 million, Reliance 1.72 million, IDEA 1.10 million, Tata 0.96 million, seventh-placed Aircel 0.75 million and tenth-placed BPL 0.15 million new users.
In total, Bharti has 77.48 million, Reliance 56.01 million, Vodafone 54.61 million, and BSNL remains in fourth place with 39.33 million users.
With 75.2% of the total market, GSM dominates the Indian market. There were 7.65 million new GSM subscribers in September, while CDMA saw “only” 2.34 million additions in September.
[Via: CellularNews]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
