NUMBER OF MOBILE CONNECTIONS IN INDIA AS ON FEB-2013

Number of Mobile Connections in India as on Feb-2013

It is really interesting to know that one of the fastest growing sector in India, mobile phone users are significantly increasing day by day in across the county, according to the report of TRAI, more than eighty crore wireless telecom subscribers in the country as on 28.02.2013. Uttar Pradesh is the first and largest number of mobile users in the country and second is Tamilnadu.

Mobile Connection in the Country

As per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there are 861,660,097 wireless telecom subscribers in the country as on 28.02.2013. The details of service area-wise wireless subscribers are given below.

Service Area-wise total Number of Wireless Subscribers as on February 2013…

Sl.No	Service Area	Wireless Subscribers
1	Andhra Pradesh	6,41,19,392
2	Assam	1,42,90,054
3	Bihar	6,07,29,012
4	Delhi	4,02,84,855
5	Gujarat	5,12,28,805
6	Haryana	1,95,29,358
7	Himachal Pradesh	68,90,093
8	Jammu & Kashmir	67,50,645
9	Karnataka	5,24,48,004
10	Kerala	3,06,98,349
11	Kolkata	2,12,01,161
12	Madhya Pradesh	5,14,27,067
13	Maharashtra	6,77,29,933
14	Mumbai	2,98,99,619
15	North East	88,29,898
16	Odisha	2,43,08,041
17	Punjab	2,92,78,748
18	Rajasthan	4,78,28,422
19	Tamilnadu including Chennai	7,18,11,035
20	Uttar Pradesh (East)	7,31,22,951
21	Uttar Pradesh (West)	4,84,81,217
22	West Bengal	4,07,73,438
	Total	86,16,60,097

Details of wireless subscribers of BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) and MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) as on 28.02.2013 are as follows:

Service Provider	No of Subscribers	%age of total wireless connections
BSNL	100670567	11.68
MTNL	5086184	0.59

As per information provided by BSNL and MTNL, complaints from customers are received from time to time regarding Quality of Service (QoS) including mobile signals in their service areas. QoS is monitored on a regular basis by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). TRAI has indicated, from time to time, some deficiencies on specified parameters of service in specific service areas.  Improvements in service delivery is a continuous process.

Measures taken by BSNL and MTNL to improve its Quality of Service including the mobile services, are as follows:

• Additions, capacity augmentation and upgradation of Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs).
• Optimization of radio network and drive tests.
• Close monitoring of network operation through IT (Information Technology) enabled systems.
• Introduction of effective Network Management System.

This information was given by Shri Milind Deora, Minister of State for C&IT in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.